1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England. 1606年的今天,火药阴谋:盖伊•福克斯企图暗算英格兰国王议会和詹姆士一世被处死。
Shakespeare wrote Macbeth shortly after the gunpowder plot, which was intended to kill the King, to show the sort of consequences such a crime might have. 莎士比亚说火药阴谋后不久,麦克白,其目的是杀死国王,以显示排序的后果等犯罪的可能。
Over a period of months other people in the "gunpowder plot" were discovered and killed too. 在随后几个月的时间里,与“火药阴谋”有牵连的另外一些人也相继落网,最终也被处决。