Popish Plot

Target entity: Popish Plot
Context triple: [Restoration (England), keyEvent, Popish Plot]

• A. The Gunpowder Plot
  The Gunpowder Plot was a failed 1605 conspiracy by a group of English Catholics, including Guy Fawkes, to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
• B. Affair of the Poisons
  The Affair of the Poisons was a major 17th-century French scandal involving accusations of witchcraft, poisonings, and black masses that implicated members of Louis XIV’s court.
• C. Trial of the Sixteen
  The Trial of the Sixteen was a 1936 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks were accused of treason and summarily condemned, marking a key early stage of Stalin’s Great Purge.
• D. Affair of the Placards
  The Affair of the Placards was a 1534 anti-Catholic propaganda incident in France, in which radical Protestant posters denouncing the Mass were publicly displayed, sharply escalating religious tensions that helped set the stage for the later French Wars of Religion.
• E. Iconoclastic Fury of 1566
  The Iconoclastic Fury of 1566 was a wave of Calvinist-inspired attacks on Catholic churches and religious images across the Low Countries that helped ignite the Dutch Revolt against Spanish Habsburg rule.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Popish Plot
Target entity description: The Popish Plot was a fabricated 1678 conspiracy alleging a Catholic plan to assassinate King Charles II, which sparked widespread anti-Catholic hysteria and political turmoil in Restoration England.

• A. The Gunpowder Plot
  The Gunpowder Plot was a failed 1605 conspiracy by a group of English Catholics, including Guy Fawkes, to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
• B. Affair of the Poisons
  The Affair of the Poisons was a major 17th-century French scandal involving accusations of witchcraft, poisonings, and black masses that implicated members of Louis XIV’s court.
• C. Trial of the Sixteen
  The Trial of the Sixteen was a 1936 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks were accused of treason and summarily condemned, marking a key early stage of Stalin’s Great Purge.
• D. Affair of the Placards
  The Affair of the Placards was a 1534 anti-Catholic propaganda incident in France, in which radical Protestant posters denouncing the Mass were publicly displayed, sharply escalating religious tensions that helped set the stage for the later French Wars of Religion.
• E. Iconoclastic Fury of 1566
  The Iconoclastic Fury of 1566 was a wave of Calvinist-inspired attacks on Catholic churches and religious images across the Low Countries that helped ignite the Dutch Revolt against Spanish Habsburg rule.
• F. None of above. chosen