Timeline of events to Jan 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

News Center 7′s Blair Miller looks back at the day and times out how the events unfolded.

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January 6, 2021

• 12:00 p.m. – President Trump gave a speech to a large crowd near the White House
• 12:32 p.m. – A large crowd marched from downtown D.C. toward the Capitol
• 1:00 p.m. – A joint session of Congress convened to count the Electoral ballots to certify Joe Biden’s win. Meanwhile, a large group gathered outside the Capitol
• 1:49 p.m. – Rioters broke down barricades
• 2:13 p.m. – Members of Congress were forced off the floor and into hiding
• 2:55 p.m. – Rioters clashed with police inside the Capitol
• 4:14 p.m. – President Trump tweets out a message encouraging rioters to go home
• 5:40 p.m. – Police clear the rioters from the Capitol. Leaders of Congress said they would continue to tally Electoral votes
• 6:00 p.m. – A curfew went into effect in Washington, D.C.
• 8:06 p.m. – The Senate reconvened

January 7, 2021

• 3:39 a.m. – Joe Biden was officially declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election

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