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 and foiled Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament in London, England.
- 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 United Provinces of Central America began with Nicaragua seceding from the federation.
- 1872 - Suffragette Susan B. Anthony (pictured) voted in the U.S. presidential election for the first time. She was later fined $100 for her participation.
- 1917 - St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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