A history of attacks on the US Chapter earlier this week

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For more than four hours, supporters of President Donald Trump occupied the Chapter in an attempt to fight the ceremonial counting of electoral votes to confirm the victory of President-elect Joe Biden. A woman was shot in the chest and later died, DC CNN police said. Several officers were injured with at least one transported to the hospital, several sources told CNN.

As of Wednesday, the Chapter had three more attacks – in 1814, 1954 and 1998.

Here’s a look at these incidents.

A view of the Chapter after the burning of the British on August 24, 1814.
British troops attacked the Chapter on August 24, 1814, during the 1812 war, according to the Chapter Architect website.

The attack was a revenge for the American burning of the Canadian capital, York, in April 1813. British troops faced little or no resistance during the raid, according to the site of the Capitol architect.

The majority of the city’s population at that time fled, the website says, but “those who remained … witnessed a terrible spectacle.”

“The British set fire to important rooms in the Capitol, which then housed the Library of Congress, as well as the House, Senate and Supreme Court,” the website reads. “The White House, the navy and several American warships were also burned.”

The chapter was still under construction at the time, and most of the damage to parts of the wings was severe. Fortunately, the building was not destroyed, the website says.

“The exterior structure has survived and many of the interior spaces have remained intact,” says the website.

The Nationalists attacked the Chapter in 1954

Puerto Rican nationalists (left) Irving Flores Rodriguez, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Lolita Lebron and Andres Figueroa Cordero are in a police line following their arrest after a 1954 shooting on Capitol Hill.

Puerto Rican nationalists introduced weapons to the Capitol and opened fire in 1954, said Samuel Holliday, director of stock exchanges and operations with the US Capitol Historical Society.

The shooting took place on March 1, 1954, while representatives gathered on the floor of the Chamber for a future vote, according to the House’s historical site and archives. Three men and a woman – all members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party – traveled from New York to Washington to take their seats in the visitors’ gallery above the room.

The four then opened fire and displayed the Puerto Rican flag. Five congressmen were injured in the shooting, the website says.

Three of the assailants were quickly apprehended and a fourth, who escaped from the Capitol, was detained later that afternoon, according to the House’s website.

The violent act of protest was meant to draw attention to their demand for Puerto Rico’s independence, the website says. It had been annexed by the United States in 1898.

The nationalists received sentences ranging from 16 to 75 years in federal prison for the attack, the House’s website said. Two decades later, President Jimmy Carter granted them clemency.

Two police officers from the Capitol shot in 1998

Tourists leave the Chapter on a stretcher after the violence and chaos caused by the shootings that led to the deaths of American Capitol police officers John Gibson and Jacob J. Chestnut.
Two police officers from the Capitol were shot dead on July 24, 1998, according to a story on the website of the House of Representatives.

A man armed with a history of mental illness has passed a security checkpoint, killing Officer Jacob J. Chestnut Jr. in the process, the website says.

As gunfire broke out, the gunman ran to a door that led to the apartments of the majority whip Tom DeLay in Texas. Detective John M. Gibson told the assistants to look for cover while he and the gunman exchanged fire. Gibson was fatally wounded during the shootings, but gave other officers a chance to shoot him down. A tourist was also injured.

Law enforcement officials described the assailant, who survived the attack, as an unstable individual who also made threats against the Pentagon.

A few days after the shooting, the House and Senate approved a resolution for a memorial service for officers from the Chapter Rotunda.

On April 22, 1999, a federal judge ruled that the shooter was suffering from mental illness and was incompetent to stand trial.

Only successful coup in 1898

Proceedings of the 1898 riots in Wilmington, North Carolina, from the Library of Congress.

There was a successful coup in the nation’s history, but it was a local uprising in a city in North Carolina, not in the nation’s capital.

When members of the Fusion Party took office in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, white people in the harbor town were unhappy with black businessmen and their white allies, according to the William Madison Randall Library at the University of North Carolina Wilmington .

This led to America’s only successful coup on November 10, 1898, when a group of armed men attacked and killed black citizens throughout the city. The mob was led by a group of powerful community leaders, known as the Secret Nine, according to the library’s online guide to the coup.

“The events of the 1898 coup marked a turning point in post-reconstruction South, which changed the trajectory of racial relations in North Carolina and marked the beginning of Jim Crow laws in the state, which continued to impose racial segregation until the middle of the century. twentieth century, “the website states.

The North Carolina General Assembly in 2000 established the Wilmington Race Riot Commission in 1898 to set a historical record for the coup and “assess the economic impact of the uprising on African Americans locally and regionally and statewide.” North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

CNN’s Ted Barrett, Manu Raju and Peter Nickeas contributed to this report.

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