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January 6 United States Capitol attack
On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of then president-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results. According to the bipartisan House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of a plan by Trump to overturn the election. Within 36 hours, five people died: one was shot by the Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer who died of a stroke a day after being assaulted by rioters and collapsing at the Capitol. Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months. Damage caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. It is the only attempted coup d'état directed towards the Federal government in the history of the United States.
2020–2021 Belarusian protests
Protests against the re-election of Belarusian president Aliaksandr Lukashenka
2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
conflict between Israelis and Palestinians beginning in May 2021
2021 Russian protests
protests in opposition to Vladimir Putin and in support of Alexei Navalny
2021–present Myanmar protests
coup resistance movement in Myanmar beginning in 2021
2021 South African unrest
protest
2021 Colombian protests
2021 protests in Colombia
2021 Northern Ireland riots
series of riots in Loyalist areas of Northern Ireland in March–April 2021
2021 Beirut clashes
2021 armed clashes in Beirut, Lebanon
2021 Solomon Islands unrest
political crisis in the Solomon Islands
United States racial unrest
ongoing wave of civil unrest against systemic racism in the United States, 2020–2023
2021 Dutch curfew riots
protests (later riots) in Nederlands in January 2021 against government's COVID-19 prevention measures and introduction of curfew
2021 Bangladesh Communal Violence
Durga idol vandalism and violence in Bangladesh
2021–2022 social unrest in the French West Indies
Riots and unrest in the French West Indies
February 2021 Ecuadorian prison riots
Massacre in Ecuadorian prisons in February 2021
November 2021 Guayaquil prison riot
prison riot in Ecuador
2021 attack on Tbilisi Pride
2021 Tbilisi riots by ultraconservative, far-right and Orthodox religious groups
September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot
massacre in Penitenciaría del Litoral in September 2021
2021 Baghdad clashes
clashes between Pro-Iran demonstrators and Iraqi police
2021 Greek protests
2021 protests in Greece