What was the "gunpowder plot" of 1605?

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Joseph Tyler

6 July, 14:22

What was the "gunpowder plot" of 1605?

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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.