NOUN
- a conspiracy in 1605 in England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England; led by Guy Fawkes
How To Use Gunpowder Plot In A Sentence
- The jingles on the King of France, against the Scots in the time of James I., against the Tory, or Irish rapparee, and about the Gunpowder Plot, are of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Nursery Rhyme Book
- I was informed recently that it was a Johnson who foiled the gunpowder plot.
- It was ordinary Catholics, however, who suffered the longest as a result of the Gunpowder Plot.
- Four hundred years ago today, in 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was averted, miscreants brought to the fearsome justice of the age and a massive disruption to English history avoided.
- In the popular mind the Gunpowder Plot, with its dramatic aim of blowing up the Houses of Parliament, has become the archetypal anti-state conspiracy and its main executor the personification of treachery.
- The finished design marks the 400th anniversary of the 1605 gunpowder plot, led by infamous York son Guy Fawkes.
