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Attack on the U.S. Capitol
A mob breached the U.S. Capitol while Congress certified the presidential election.
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What is stated, why it matters, and what remains uncertain
What this is
A specific-event record selected from the protected World Events source ledger for cross-year research. It is not an exhaustive account of 2021.
Why it matters
It became a major democratic-resilience and domestic-extremism event.
What is established here
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What remains uncertain
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Record narrative
Source-bounded summary
A mob breached the U.S. Capitol while Congress certified the presidential election.
It became a major democratic-resilience and domestic-extremism event.
Structured fields
Record at a glance
- Stable record ID
- 2021-001
- Date or period
- 2021-01-06
- Type
- Insurrection / political violence
- Focus
- Political violence
- Impact scope
- Global
- Priority
- 5 of 5
- Location label
- Capitol Hill / Washington, United States
- Coordinate precision
- Site-level approximate coordinate
- Actors named by the source record
- Rioters; U.S. Congress; law enforcement
- Verification state
- source-start-point; sensitive details require independent verification
Geographic context
A coordinate locator, not a surveyed event footprint
The submitted record supplies 38.8899, -77.0091 with the precision label “Site-level approximate coordinate.” Multi-location events, disputed borders, campaigns, and broad regions cannot be reduced to one point.
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This remains a starting-point record
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Citation and correction
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2IA — International Intelligence Archive. “Attack on the U.S. Capitol.” World Events record 2021-001. Reviewed July 27, 2026. https://2ix.org/world-events/2021/2021-001/