Rye House Plot Rye House Plot The Rye House Plot of 1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother (and heir to the throne) James, Duke of York. The royal party went from Westminster to Newmarket to see horse races and were expected to make the return journey on 1 April 1683, but because there was a major fire in Newmarket on 22 March (which destroyed half the town), the races were cancelled, and the King and the Duke returned to London early. As a result, the planned attack never took place. Historians vary in their assessment
The Voronov Plot The Voronov Plot The Voronov Plot is the fourteenth book in the Blake and Mortimer comic book series. It was released in 2000. January 16, 1957, a rocket took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the orders of the general Oufa of the Red Army that seeks to keep its lead over the United States in the conquest of space. As the Professor Piotr Ilioutchine had feared, the rocket is hit by a meteor shower and his head falls back on Earth. The team sent the recover having died under mysterious circumstances, Dr. Voronov, responsible of a clinic of the