Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 5
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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries
- 1605 – Thomas Knyvet arrested explosives expert Guy Fawkes and foiled Robert Catesby's Gunpowder Plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament in London during the State Opening.
- 1688 – Prince William of Orange landed at Brixham in Devon, on his way to depose his father-in-law King James II (pictured), the last Catholic monarch of England.
- 1838 – The collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America began with Nicaragua seceding from the union.
- 1913 – King Otto of Bavaria was deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III of Bavaria.
- 1917 – St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.