Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 5
November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries.
- 1605 – The Gunpowder Plot: Thomas Knyvet arrested explosives expert Guy Fawkes (pictured) and foiled Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament in London during the State Opening.
- 1688 – Glorious Revolution: Protestant Prince William of Orange landed at Brixham in Devon, on his way to depose his father-in-law King James II, the last Catholic monarch of England.
- 1838 – The collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America began with Nicaragua seceding from the union.
- 1872 – American Suffragette Susan B. Anthony voted in the U.S. presidential election for the first time in Rochester, New York. She was later fined US$100 for her participation, which she never paid, and the government never pursued her for nonpayment.
- 1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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