1. The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 involved a group of Catholics led by Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy who planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament on November 5th in protest of anti-Catholic laws, but Guy Fawkes was caught guarding barrels of gunpowder and arrested. 2. The English Revolution from 1640-1660 involved civil wars between supporters of King Charles I and Parliament, resulting in the king's execution in 1649 and a period of rule by the Rump Parliament and Oliver Cromwell before the monarchy was restored in 1660 with King Charles II. 3. Puritanism emerged in England after the Protestant Reformation and opposed the rituals of