Perpetrator
Guy Fawkes
- Born
- 13 April 1570
- Died
- 31 January 1606, aged about 36
- Record
- Wikidata Q13898 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Gunpowder Plot
Former soldier in the Spanish service who guarded the powder under the name John Johnson; executed in Old Palace Yard.
1605–1606 · Palace of Westminster, London · 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. Read the case.
Dated events
Catesby, Thomas Wintour, John Wright, Percy and Fawkes swear an oath of secrecy at the Duck and Drake inn.
Late at night Fawkes is arrested in the undercroft beside thirty-six barrels of gunpowder.
Thomas Wintour, Rookwood, Keyes and Fawkes are executed in Old Palace Yard, Westminster.