Important Historical Events of the year 2017, Year 2017 in History
List of 2017 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 2017
What happened in the year 2017?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 2017 | An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills at least 39 people and injures more than 60 others. |
| January 6, 2017 | Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida. |
| January 17, 2017 | The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is announced to be suspended. |
| January 21, 2017 | Over 400 cities across America and 160+ countries worldwide participate in a large-scale women's march, on Donald Trump's first full day as President of the United States. |
| January 27, 2017 | A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States. |
| January 29, 2017 | Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting. |
| February 11, 2017 | North Korea test fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan. |
| February 13, 2017 | Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. |
| February 23, 2017 | The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL. |
| March 2, 2017 | The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson are officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia. |
| March 3, 2017 | The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide. |
| March 8, 2017 | The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather. |
| March 10, 2017 | The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency. |
| March 14, 2017 | A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.[34] |
| March 22, 2017 | A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured. |
| March 22, 2017 | Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.[29][30][31] |
| March 26, 2017 | Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption. |
| March 29, 2017 | Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, formally beginning the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. |
| March 30, 2017 | SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[13] |
| April 3, 2017 | A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people. |
| April 4, 2017 | Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians. |
| April 6, 2017 | 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 US-Russia ties. |
| April 7, 2017 | A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others. |
| April 7, 2017 | U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack. |
| April 9, 2017 | The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place. |
| April 9, 2017 | After refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked United Express flight, Dr. David Dao Duy Anh is forcibly dragged off the flight by aviation security officers, leading to major criticism of United Airlines. |
| April 13, 2017 | The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. |
| May 10, 2017 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last footholds of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Al-Tabqah, bringing the Battle of Tabqa to an end.[53][54] |
| May 12, 2017 | The WannaCry ransomware attack impacts over 400,000 computers worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's National Health Services and Telefónica computers. |
| May 21, 2017 | Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. |
| May 22, 2017 | Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. |
| May 22, 2017 | United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall. |
| May 23, 2017 | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi. |
| May 27, 2017 | Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. |
| May 28, 2017 | Former Formula One driver Takuma Sato wins his first Indianapolis 500, the first Japanese and Asian driver to do so. Double world champion Fernando Alonso retires from an engine issue in his first entry of the event. |
| May 31, 2017 | A car bomb explodes in a crowded intersection in Kabul near the German embassy during rush hour, killing over 90 and injuring 463. |
| June 3, 2017 | London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police. |
| June 5, 2017 | Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO. |
| June 5, 2017 | Six Arab countries—Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates—cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. |
| June 6, 2017 | Syrian civil war: The Battle of Raqqa begins with an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to capture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). |
| June 7, 2017 | A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard. |
| June 12, 2017 | American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later. |
| June 14, 2017 | A fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured. |
| June 14, 2017 | US Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, and three others, are shot and wounded by a terrorist while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game. |
| June 17, 2017 | A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others. |
| June 23, 2017 | A series of terrorist attacks take place in Pakistan, resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others. |
| June 27, 2017 | A series of powerful cyberattacks using the Petya malware target websites of Ukrainian organizations and counterparts with Ukrainian connections around the globe. |
| July 10, 2017 | Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq. |
| July 20, 2017 | O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas. |
| July 28, 2017 | Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by Supreme Court of Pakistan after finding him guilty of corruption charges. |
| August 1, 2017 | A suicide attack on a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan kills 20 people. |
| August 11, 2017 | At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. |
| August 17, 2017 | Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100. |
| August 18, 2017 | The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight. |
| August 19, 2017 | Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. |
| August 21, 2017 | A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States. |
| August 24, 2017 | The National Space Agency of Taiwan successfully launches the observation satellite Formosat-5 into space. |
| August 25, 2017 | Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125 billion in damage. |
| August 25, 2017 | Conflict in Rakhine State (2016–present): One hundred seventy people are killed in at least 26 separate attacks carried out by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, leading to the governments of Myanmar and Malaysia designating the group as a terrorist organisation.[18][19] |
| August 28, 2017 | China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two month-long stalemate over China’s construction of a road in disputed territory. |
| September 3, 2017 | North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. |
| September 7, 2017 | The 8.2 Mw 2017 Chiapas earthquake strikes southern Mexico, killing at least 60 people. |
| September 8, 2017 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce the beginning of the Deir ez-Zor campaign, with the stated aim of eliminating the Islamic State (IS) from all areas north and east of the Euphrates.[9] |
| September 10, 2017 | Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage. |
| September 15, 2017 | The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London. |
| September 19, 2017 | The 2017 Puebla earthquake strikes Mexico, causing 370 deaths and over 6,000 injuries, as well as extensive damage. |
| September 20, 2017 | Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90 billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.[33] |
| October 1, 2017 | An independence referendum, later declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia. |
| October 1, 2017 | Fifty-eight people are killed and 869 others injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip in the United States; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.[17] |
| October 4, 2017 | Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo. |
| October 12, 2017 | The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows. |
| October 14, 2017 | A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others. |
| October 16, 2017 | Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss. |
| October 17, 2017 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.[16] |
| October 20, 2017 | Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare victory in the Raqqa campaign. |
| October 26, 2017 | At a level crossing of the Hanko–Hyvinkää railway line, a passenger train collides with an off-road truck of the Nyland Brigade in Raseborg, Finland; four people die and 11 are injured.[10] |
| October 27, 2017 | Catalonia declares independence from Spain. |
| October 31, 2017 | A truck drives into a crowd in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people. |
| November 5, 2017 | Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. |
| November 7, 2017 | Shamshad TV is attacked by armed gunmen and suicide bombers, with a security guard killed and 20 people wounded; ISIS claims responsibility for the attack. |
| November 12, 2017 | The 7.3 Mw Kermanshah earthquake shakes the northern Iran |
| November 14, 2017 | A gunman kills four people and injures 12 others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama, California. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home. |
| November 21, 2017 | Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after thirty-seven years in office. |
| December 4, 2017 | The Thomas Fire starts near Santa Paula in California. It eventually became the largest wildfire in modern California history to date after burning 440 square miles (1,140 km2) in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. |
| December 5, 2017 | The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics. |
| December 6, 2017 | Donald Trump's administration officially announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. |
| December 9, 2017 | The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage. |
| December 10, 2017 | ISIL is defeated in Iraq. |
| December 11, 2017 | New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator. |
| December 14, 2017 | The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion. |
| December 15, 2017 | A 6.5Mw earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Java in the city of Tasikmalaya, resulting in four deaths. |
| December 18, 2017 | Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others. |
| December 22, 2017 | United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved. |
| December 22, 2017 | President Donald Trump signs the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. |