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 * ~ Guy Fawkes ||
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[|George Cruikshank]'s illustration of Guy Fawkes, published in [|William Harrison Ainsworth]'s 1840 novel || [|York], England || [|Westminster], London, England || What country did Guy Fawkes begin in? It started in England.
 * ~ Details ||
 * ~ Parents || Edward Fawkes, Edith (//née// Blake or Jackson) ||
 * ~ Born || 13 April 1570 (presumed)
 * ~ Alias(es) || Guido Fawkes, John Johnson ||
 * ~ Occupation || Soldier; [|Alférez] ||
 * ~ Plot ||
 * ~ Role || Explosives ||
 * ~ Enlisted || 20 May 1604 ||
 * ~ Captured || 5 November 1605 ||
 * ~ [|Conviction(s)] || [|High treason] ||
 * ~ Penalty || [|Hanged, drawn and quartered] ||
 * ~ Died || 31 January 1606
 * ~ [|Cause] || [|Hanged] ||

What countries celebrate Guy Fawkes? New Zealand, Canada, European countries, U.S.A and the U.K.


 * Guy Fawkes** (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as **Guido Fawkes**, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the [|Low Countries], was a member of a group of provincial [|English Catholics] who planned the failed [|Gunpowder Plot] of 1605.

Fawkes was born and educated in [|York]. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a [|recusant] Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the [|Eighty Years' War] on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch [|reformers]. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met [|Thomas Wintour], with whom he returned to England.

Wintour introduced Fawkes to [|Robert Catesby], who planned to assassinate [|King James I] and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an [|undercroft] beneath the [|House of Lords], and Fawkes was placed in charge of the [|gunpowder] they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched [|Westminster Palace] during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the [|mutilation] that followed.

Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in England since 5 November 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a [|firework] display.

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