Guy Fawkes and his friends planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder underneath King James I's chair in 1605, as not all Englishmen liked the King. Their plot was discovered when the gunpowder was found, and Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators were arrested and punished for treason for attempting to assassinate the King inside Parliament. Every November 5th, the failed Gunpowder Plot is remembered in England with bonfires, fireworks, and effigies of Guy Fawkes burned on top of bonfires.

1. The Gunpowder
Plot

2. In 1605 King James 1 was the King of
England. Not everybody in England
liked him.

3. A man called Guy Fawkes decided to
blow up the Houses of Parliament
with the King inside.

4. Guy Fawkes and his friends planned
to use gunpowder to blow up
underneath the King’s chair.

5. 36 barrels of gunpowder were put in
the basement of the Houses of
Parliament on November 5th.

6. The barrels were found. Guy Fawkes
and his friends were arrested for
trying to kill the King.

7. Guy Fawkes was tortured until he
confessed to trying to blow up the
Houses of Parliament. He was hung.

8. Every year on November 5th we
remember the gunpowder plot. We
have fireworks outside.

9. We burn bonfires and put a model of
Guy Fawkes on top. We remember
how his plan failed.