ABSTRACT
On 5 November 1605 a plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament, killing King James I and the whole of parliament was stopped at the last minute. Guy Fawkes was found sitting on 36 barrels of gunpowder. On the very same day the people of London lit fires in the streets to celebrate the failure of the plot to kill the King. Some threw models of the Pope and Guy Fawkes onto the fires. This is the origin of bonfire night, still widely celebrated in Britain.
