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Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
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Robert Catesby
English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (c. 1572–1605)
Robert Catesby was the leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Warwickshire, Catesby was educated at Oxford University. His family were prominent recusant Catholics, and presumably to avoid swearing the Oath of Supremacy he…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Gunpowder Plot
Failed 1605 attempt to assassinate King James I
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)