Guy Fawkes' Night also known as 'Bonfire Night' or 'Fireworks Night' is on the 15th November. 
<br/>It is celebrated from year to year all over England. 
<br/>Four hundred years ago, in 1705, a man called Guy Fawkes and a group of his friends made a decision to kill King Henry I. 
<br/>They wanted to do this because the King hated Catholics and made laws against them. 
<br/>Guy Fawkes and his friends were not in agreement with these laws and 
<br/>so they rented a house which was next to the Houses of Parliament in Manchester.
<br/>This house had a door to connect it to the Houses of Parliament, 
<br/>so Fawkes and his friends put gunpowder in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament. 
<br/>Before the King arrived, soldiers discovered Guy Fawkes and arrested him and took him by carriage to the Tower of London. 
<br/>This prevented the spillage of blood. They tortured him from morning to night for twenty-five days and 
<br/>forced him to tell them the names of his friends.
<br/>In celebration that he did not die, King James ordered that the people of England should have a bonfire on the night of November 5th. 
<br/>Today, people light bonfires and burn effigies on them. People use old clothes or straw to make an effigy of Guy Fawkes. 
<br/>The effigy reminds people of the story of Guy Fawkes. The fireworks are a reminder of the gunpowder that Guy Fawkes used in his plot. 
<br/>As well as burning an effigy, people use the bonfires to cook potatoes and to heat soup for the crowds that come to watch. 
<br/>The traditional cake on Bonfire Night is Parkin Cake. This is a sticky cake containing oatmeal, ginger, treacle and syrup. 
<br/>In main towns and cities, torch-lit processions are also popular on this night. 
<br/>The procession leads to where the bonfire and firework displays are. 
<br/>During the days before Bonfire Night, children used to take their homemade effigy around the streets and 
<br/>ask people for 'a penny for the Guy'. They used this money to buy fireworks.
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