Gunpowder Plot
Proper noun
  1. (British) A failed plot, in November 1605, to kill the Protestant king James I of England and VI of Scotland, and to blow up the House of Lords using gunpowder, annually commemorated on Guy Fawkes Day.
Synonyms
  • Gunpowder Treason
Translations
  • French: Conspiration des poudres
  • German: Pulververschwörung
  • Italian: Congiura delle polveri
  • Portuguese: Conspiração da Pólvora
  • Russian: Пороховой Заговор
  • Spanish: Conspiración de la pólvora



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