Remember remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. We see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
With Bonfire Night only 24 hours away, people arrange their firework displays, collect their firewood and prepare for further Bonfire Night festivities like apple bobbing! This joyous time - where children write their names with sparklers and the gunpowder plot is condemned - holds so much history. Therefore, we have picked out 12 fun facts for Bonfire Night for you to enjoy!
1) Over 400 years ago, Guy Fawkes was part of a team of 13 Catholics brought together to carry out the Gunpowder Plot, intending to blow up King James I and his government whilst they were in the famous Houses of Parliament.
2) Fawkes was the explosive expert, entrusted with the task of deploying the gunpowder. The plot itself is thought to have been organised by Robert Catesby.
3) Fawkes was found and arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. Fawkes was tortured until he give the names of his counterparts.
4) The reason Guy Fawkes wanted James I dead is because Guy and his counterparts were Catholics and they had expected James to be more tolerant of them in his ruling. However, James proved to be the opposite and had ordered all Catholic priests to leave the country. This angered many Catholics to the point that they decided to kill James and put his daughter Elizabeth on the throne ensuring that she was a Catholic. This led to a plot to kill not only the king of England, but all those sitting in the Houses of Parliament at the same time as James on November 5th, 1605.
5) Following the unearthing of the plot and the survival of King James, he ordered the people of England to have a bonfire on the night on November 5th. This fire was traditionally topped off with an effigy of The Catholic Pope.
6) Bonfire Night is also known as Guy Fawkes Night, Guy Fawkes Day and Firework Night.
7) Bonfires are lit to burn the "Guy" which a kind of dummy that represents Fawkes.
8) There were 36 barrels of gun powder in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament.
9) Traditions include – penny for the guy, apple bobbing, fireworks and sparklers.
10) The ploy was rumbled when one of the Catholic Gunpowder Plot team wrote to a friend in parliament warning him of the plan to blow up him and his colleagues. He warned him to stay away on November 5th.
11) Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York. Although his immediate family were all Protestants, in keeping with the accepted religious practice in England at the time, his maternal grandparents were recusant Catholics.
12) Fawkes was sentenced to the traditional traitors' death of a hanging. In the event, he jumped from the gallows, breaking his own neck and thereby avoiding the horror of being cut down while still alive. His lifeless body was hacked into quarters and his remains were sent to the four corners of the kingdom as a warning to others.
Bonfire Night is so rich in history and this traditional tale is fun for all the family!
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