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Execution of Guy Fawkes

Type Event Region Europe Time 1606

On 31 January 1606, Guy Fawkes, chief executor of the Gunpowder Plot, was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Old Palace Yard in London, executed the sam…

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  1. 1606Palace of Westminster · LondonThe captured Gunpowder Plot conspirators were tried at the Palace of Westminster, and Fawkes and others were found guilty of treason. Plotters such as Robert Catesby had already died during the roundup, and the remaining survivors faced public execution.
  2. 1606Old Palace Yard · LondonGuy Fawkes and the other conspirators were executed as traitors at Old Palace Yard. After breaking free of the rope on the scaffold, Fawkes leapt of his own accord and broke his neck, sparing himself the agony of being disemboweled alive. The public execution displayed the severe punishment of traitors to the populace.

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