Lucie Syrová

* General facts * History * Guy Fawkes Night in the past * Guy Fawkes Night nowadays * Remember, remember …

* Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Firework Night * 5th November * Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries

* Gunpowder Plot of 5th November 1605 * English Catholics aimed to assassinate the Protestant King James I * Guy Fawkes caught guarding gunpowder under the House of Lords * James's Council allowed the public to celebrate the king's survival with bonfires * conspirators executed January 1606

* holiday known as Gunpowder Treason Day * anti-catholic sentiment * Puritans delivered sermons criticising the Pope * people burnt effigies of popular hate figures, e.g. the Pope * children begging for money with effigies of Guy Fawkes

* public bonfires and fireworks displays * effigies of Guy Fawkes later burnt on fire * Penny for the Guy! * children begging for money to buy firecrackers

* Remember, remember the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and plot, I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot.

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