7 Interesting Facts About Bonfire Night (you probably didn’t know) The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was meant to kill the Protestant King, James I. and replace him with a Catholic Queen.; It was actually Warwickshire-born Robert Catesby who led the Gunpowder Plot, not Guy Fawkes; The job Guy Fawkes had in the Gunpowder Plot was to guard the 36 barrels of gunpowder that had been placed in a …

