1. Made by: -Alberto Pereiras - Florín Huzum

2. INDEX -Page #1: Guy Fawkes -Page #2: Index -Page #3: Who’s Guido Fawkes -Page #4: The celebration -Page #5: History -Page #6: Photos -Page #7: Bibliography

3. Who’s Guido Fawkes? -Guy fawkes,born in 1570 (13 th of April),also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. - Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.

4. The celebration Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated in Britain annually on November 5th. The event is accompanied by firework displays, the lighting of bonfires and the ceremonial effigy- burning of one Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes Night is not solely a British celebration. The tradition was also established in the British colonies by the early American settlers and actively pursued in the New England States under the name of "Pope Day" as late as the Eighteenth Century.

5. History The origin of this celebration stems from events which took place in 1605 and was a conspiracy known as "The Gunpowder Plot”. The conspirators, who began plotting early in 1604. A modern theory regarding the involvement of Guy Fawkes in the Gunpower Plot is that he was not trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament at all. -But merely attempaiting to assassinate King James who, it was believed, had reneged on his promise to put a stop to the persecution of Catholics. In any event, it remains unclear whether the conspirators would have been successful in their plan, even if they had not been betrayed. Some believe that the gunpowder they were planning to use was so old as to be useless for the task

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