Bonfire Night (Guy Fawkes Night)
5 November 2026 — Hold your sparkler high and watch the sky answer with stars!
Bonfire Night, also called Guy Fawkes Night, is marked on 5 November in the United Kingdom. It recalls the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when a group of conspirators tried to blow up Parliament in London and Guy Fawkes was caught on the night of 4–5 November. Londoners lit bonfires that very night to celebrate the King's survival, and in 1606 an Act of Parliament set a yearly day of thanksgiving, which kept the tradition alive. Today it is mostly a family autumn evening: big bonfires are lit, fireworks light up the sky, children wave sparklers, and people share jacket potatoes and toffee apples. The date falls in late autumn, when nights are long and dark, so the bursts of the rockets seem to mingle with the stars overhead. When the last sparks fade, look up and find the real constellations shining behind them.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver figure of a little rocket made of pale glowing dots and fine lines, like a constellation drifting across the night sky
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