Gregorian Year 2017

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	· 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
Decades:	· 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s
Years:	· 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020

2017 (MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

2017 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states
Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Association football (soccer) – Athletics (track and field) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing– Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling – Rugby league – Rugby union – Table tennis – Tennis – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – Belgium – Bhutan – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Brazil – Canada – Cape Verde – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece –Guatemala – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia– Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kuwait – Laos – Latvia – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Myanmar – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Nigeria – North Korea– Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palestine – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda– Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea– Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Taiwan – Tanzania– Thailand – Turkey – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions
Works entering the public domain

· v

· t

· e

2017 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	2017 MMXVII
Ab urbe condita	2770
Armenian calendar	1466 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6767
Bahá'í calendar	173–174
Balinese saka calendar	1938–1939
Bengali calendar	1424
Berber calendar	2967
British Regnal year	65 Eliz. 2 – 66 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2561
Burmese calendar	1379
Byzantine calendar	7525–7526
Chinese calendar	丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4713 or 4653 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4714 or 4654
Coptic calendar	1733–1734
Discordian calendar	3183
Ethiopian calendar	2009–2010
Hebrew calendar	5777–5778
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2073–2074
- Shaka Samvat	1938–1939
- Kali Yuga	5117–5118
Holocene calendar	12017
Igbo calendar	1017–1018
Iranian calendar	1395–1396
Islamic calendar	1438–1439
Japanese calendar	Heisei 29 (平成２９年)
Javanese calendar	1950–1951
Juche calendar	106
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4350
Minguo calendar	ROC 106 民國106年
Nanakshahi calendar	549
Thai solar calendar	2560
Tibetan calendar	阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 2143 or 1762 or 990 — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 2144 or 1763 or 991
Unix time	1483228800 – 1514764799

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2017.

2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.^[1]

Contents

· 1Events

· 2Births

· 3Deaths

· 4Nobel Prizes

· 5See also

· 6References

Events[edit]

January[edit]

· January 20 – Donald Trump, a Republican New York City businessman, is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Trump is the first person to be elected President of the United States who was neither a political office holder or a military general.^[2]

· January 21 – Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States. 420 marches were reported in the U.S. and 168 in other countries, becoming the largest single-day protest in American history and the largest worldwide protest in recent history.^[3]

· January 30 – Morocco rejoins the African Union.

February[edit]

· February 11 – North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.^[4]

March[edit]

· March 10 – The UN warns that the world is facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.^[5]

· March 14 – March 2017 North American blizzard, a major late-season blizzard, affects the Northeastern United States, New England and Canada, dumping up to three feet of snow in the hardest hit areas.

· March 22 – A terror attack in Westminster kills five and injures more than 50.^[6]

· March 29 – The United Kingdom triggers Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, starting the Brexit negotiations, the talks for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.^[7]

· March 30 – SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.^[8][9]

April[edit]

· April 6 – In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage U.S.–Russia ties.^[10]

· April 13 – In the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike the U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB, the world's largest non-nuclear weapon, at an ISIL base in Afghanistan.

May[edit]

· May 12 – Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack,^[11] which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.^[12]

· May 22 – A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 500.^[13]

June[edit]

· June 1 – Amidst widespread criticism, the U.S. government announces its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in due time.^[14]

· June 3 – An Islamist terror attack on London Bridge, United Kingdom kills 8 and injures 48.

· June 5

· Montenegro joins NATO as the 29th member.

· The 2017–18 Qatar diplomatic crisis starts, as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries block Qatari access to their seas and air.

· June 7 – Two terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by five Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded. It becomes the first ISIL attack in Iran.

· June 8 – In the midst of Brexit, a snap general election is held in the UK, three years before the next one was due, resulting in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, losing their majority in Parliament. The Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, makes gains for the first time since 1997. Days later, the Conservative Party, now lacking a majority, enters a confidence-and-supply deal with the Northern Irish DUP.^[15]

· June 10 – The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan.^[16]

· June 12 – American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Koreanprison and dies a week later.^[17][18]

· June 14 – A fire at Grenfell Tower in London kills 72 people.^[19]

· June 18 – Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fire six surface-to-surface mid-range ballistic missiles from domestic bases targeting ISIL forces in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier that month.

· June 21 – The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, is destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.^[20]

· June 25 – The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera.

· June 27 – A series of cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins, affecting organizations in Ukraine.^[21]

July[edit]

· July 4 – Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs after it successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.^[22][23]

· July 7 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is voted for by 122 states.^[24]

· July 10 – Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.^[25]

August[edit]

· August 5

· The UN Security Council unanimously approves fresh sanctions on North Korean trade and investment.^[26]

· Mauritania holds a constitutional referendum for approval of proposed amendments to the constitution.

· August 12 – The Unite the Right rally is held in Charlottesville, Virginia, by a variety of white nationalist and other far-right groups; Heather Heyer, a counter-protestor, is killed after being hit by a car.

· August 17 – The first observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817)^[27] is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy^[28] when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected.^[29][30]Data from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold.^[31][32]

· August 18 – The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight.^[33][34]

· August 21 – A total solar eclipse (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse")^[35] is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.^[36][37][38]

· August 25–ongoing – A military operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.^[39]

· August 25–30 – Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion (2017 USD), making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history, tied with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.^[40][41]

September[edit]

· September 1 – Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats in response to United States sanctions.^[42]

· September 3 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.^[43]

· September 6–10 – The Caribbean and United States are struck by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane that is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The storm causes at least 146 deaths and $64.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage.^[41][44]

· September 13 – The International Olympic Committee awards Paris and Los Angeles the right to host the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, respectively.^[45]

· September 15 – Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere.^[46]

· September 19 – Eleven days after another powerful earthquake, and on the 32nd anniversary of the deadly 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a 7.1 M_w earthquakestrikes central Mexico, killing more than 350, leaving up to 6,000 injured^[47] and thousands more homeless.^[48]

· September 19–20 – Just two weeks after Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria strikes similar areas, making landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. Maria caused at least 3,000 deaths and damages estimated in excess of $91.6 billion (2017 USD).^[41][49]

· September 25 – Iraqi Kurdistan votes in a referendum to become an independent state, in defiance of Iraq;^[50] by October 15, the crisis escalates into a short-lived armed conflict over disputed territories.

October[edit]

· October 1 – Fifty-eight people are killed and 851 injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas, surpassing the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history.^[51]

· October 12 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO,^[52] and is immediately followed by Israel.^[53]

· October 14 – A massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 512 people and injures 316 others.^[54]

· October 17 – Syrian Civil War: Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

· October 25 – At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping assumes his second term as General Secretary (China's paramount leader), and the political theory Xi Jinping Thought is written into the party's constitution.^[55]

· October 27 – Based on the results of a previously held referendum, Catalonia declares independence from Spain,^[56] but the Catalan Republic is not recognised by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation.^[57]

November[edit]

· November 2 – A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the first great ape to be described for almost a century.^[58]

· November 3 – Syrian Civil War: both Deir ez-Zor in Syria and Al-Qa'im in Iraq are declared liberated from ISIL on the same day.^[59]

· November 5 – The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from the offshore law firm Appleby, along with business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions that reveal offshore financial activities on behalf of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders. The newspaper shared the documents with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and asked it to lead the investigation.^[60]

· November 12 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran leaving at least 530 dead and over 70,000 homeless.^[61]

· November 15

· Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest, as the military take control of the country.^[62] He resigns six days later, after 37 years of rule.^[63]

· A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US$450 million at Christie's in New York, a new record price for any work of art.^[64]

· The Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan suddenly vanished with 44 crew members on board whilst on a routine patrol in the South Atlantic. It would be found one year later wrecked 900 meters below the Atlantic Ocean^[65]

· November 20 – Nature publishes an article recognising the high-velocity asteroid ʻOumuamua as originating from outside the Solar System, i.e. the first known interstellar object.

· November 22 – The International Court of Justice finds Ratko Mladić guilty of genocide committed in Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian War, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. He is sentenced to life in prison.^[66]

· November 24 – A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded.^[67]

December[edit]

· December 5 – Russia is banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee, following an investigation into state-sponsored doping.^[68]

· December 6 – The United States officially recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital.^[69]

· December 9 – The Iraqi military announces that it has "fully liberated" all of Iraq's territory from "ISIS terrorist gangs" and retaken full control of the Iraqi-Syrian border.^[70]

· December 14 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it will acquire most of 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox film studio, for $66 billion.^[71]

· December 22 – The UN Security Council votes 15–0 in favor of additional sanctions on North Korea, including measures to slash the country's petroleum imports by up to 90%.^[72][73]

· December 24 – Guatemala follows in the footsteps of the United States by announcing that they will also move their Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, followed by Honduras and Panama two days later.^[74]