Reply #100: Guido Fawkes;A Man Ahead Of His Time....

[Englander]

Since Mr Fawkes was a religious fundie,and all...
And it is the 400th Anniversary this year..

Now,to be serious,what Guido tried to accomplish is what I think is meant by "modern terrorism",an act of political violence,that disregards the possibility,or certainty of civilian,or non-combatant deaths.
Other examples of political violence,in this case assassinations,are
those carried out by Irish Republicans,the Fenians in the 1880's,then the IRB in Ireland in the 1920's.See "Bloody Sunday",the killing of British,repeat,British, MI agents the Cairo Gang,and the retaliatory Croke Park massacre.

Another factor,I think is the concept of "Gentlemanly Rules",that some targets were off-limits.And with the dawning of the age of industrial warfare,of total war,of millions killed,so came "modern terrorism". Of which,the King David Hotel bomb is first,last & always the template,that which guides all others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents
Edited to include encyclopedia entry.