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Execution of Guy Fawkes, Illustration from "Guy Fawkes, or the Gunpowder Treason: an Historical Romance", by William Harrison Ainsworth, pub. 1841 (engraving). Guy Fawkes (1570 - 1606) was executed on 31 January 1606, after the discovery of the 'Gunpowder Plot' to blow up the Houses of Parliament.