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26th September 1687: An explosion rips through the Parthenon in Athens while it’s being used as a gunpowder magazine

26th September 2025
Tagged as: Acropolis, Architecture, Athens, Elgin Marbles, Explosion, Greece, Gunpowder, Morean War, Ottoman, Ottoman Empire, Parthenon, Republic of Venice, Venice

A mortar shell fired by Venetian troops at their Ottoman enemy struck the Parthenon directly, igniting the powder stored inside.

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5th November 1605: Guy Fawkes discovered during Gunpowder Plot

5th November 2019
Tagged as: Assassination, Britain, Catholicism, Church of England, England, Gunpowder, House of Lords, James I and VI, Politics, Protestantism, Regicide, Religion, Scotland

On the 5^th November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled when Guy or Guido Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder that had been placed in an undercroft below the House of Lords in London.

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26th September 1687: An explosion rips through the Parthenon in Athens while it’s being used as a gunpowder magazine

5th November 1605: Guy Fawkes discovered during Gunpowder Plot

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