The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt againsthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I ( King James I) by a group of provincialhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Catholics ( English Catholics) led byhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Catesby ( Robert Catesby) who sought to restore the Catholic monarchy to England after decades of persecution against Catholics.

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