5 November

Londoners light bonfires to celebrate the king's escape; the other plotters ride for the Midlands.

Gunpowder Plot Executed

Thirty-six barrels of powder under the House of Lords, an anonymous letter, and a man called 'John Johnson' with a lantern: the plot behind Bonfire Night.

Pierce and Burgess are arrested.

Great Gold Robbery of 1855 Convicted

In May 1855 four men emptied the bullion safes on the London-to-Folkestone night train and refilled them with lead shot. Nobody noticed until Paris.