Centuries:	20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades:	1980s  1990s  2000s  - 2010s -  2020s  2030s  2040s
Years:	2014 2015 2016 - 2017 - 2018 2019 2020

2017 by topic:

News by month

Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec

Arts

Architecture - Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music (Country, Metal, UK) - Film - Television - Home video

Politics

Countries - Elections - Int'l leaders - Politics - State leaders - Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation - Birding/Ornithology - Meteorology - Rail transport - Science - Spaceflight

Sports

Sport - Athletics (Track and Field) - Australian Football League - Baseball - Football (soccer) - Ice Hockey - Motorsport - Tennis - National Rugby League

By place

Argentina - Australia - Canada - China - European Union - France - India - Iran - Iraq - Ireland - Japan - Kenya - Luxembourg - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Turkey - United Kingdom - United States - Zimbabwe

Other topics

Deaths - Awards - Games - Law - Religious leaders - Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works - Introductions v • d • e

2017 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2017 MMXVII
Ab urbe condita	2770
Armenian calendar	1466 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ
Bahá'í calendar	173 – 174
Berber calendar	2967
Buddhist calendar	2561
Burmese calendar	1379
Byzantine calendar	7525 – 7526
Chinese calendar	丙申年十二月初四日 (4653/4713-12-4) — to — 丁酉年十一月十四日 (4654/4714-11-14)
Coptic calendar	1733 – 1734
Ethiopian calendar	2009 – 2010
Hebrew calendar	5777 – 5778
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2072 – 2073
- Shaka Samvat	1939 – 1940
- Kali Yuga	5118 – 5119
Holocene calendar	12017
Iranian calendar	1395 – 1396
Islamic calendar	1438 – 1439
Japanese calendar	Heisei 29 (平成29年)
Korean calendar	4350
Thai solar calendar	2560
Unix time	1483228800 – 1514764799
v • d • e

2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

January

• January 20 - Inauguration of the President of the United States.

March

• March 31 - The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility is scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.^[1]

May

• May 09 - Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada. ^[2]

July

• July 1 - The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by Universal suffrage take office.

August

• August 21 - From 16:50 to 20:02 UTC, the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental U.S. since February 26, 1979, takes place. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most 2 minutes 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky at 36.9715 degrees North and 87.6559 degrees West occurring at 18:25.4716 UTC.^[3][4]

Unknown dates

• Sealed government documents surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination to be released.^[5]
• The government of China has announced it will start sending probes to the Moon in 2017, resulting in a manned Chinese landing on the moon in a few years.^[6]
• In Copenhagen (Denmark), the City Circle Line extension of the metro will open.^[7]
• South Korea states that it will attempt a space mission by this year.^[8]
• Construction of London's Crossrail project is expected to be completed, with the first passenger trains running this year.
• In France the case-documents regarding the execution of assumed World War I double spy Mata Hari will be revealed.
• In Lisbon, the new Alcochete Airport starts operations.
• Phase II of the USMC VXX Presidential helicopter program, the AgustaWestland/Bell Helicopter VH-71B Kestrel, is scheduled to enter Initial operating capability. ^[9]
• Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars.^[10]

In fiction

• Epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter's second son and middle child, Albus Potter, attends his first year at Hogwarts. Harry's first born child, James attends Hogwarts for the second or third year. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger's daughter Rose also starts school, as well as Draco Malfoy's son Scorpius.

• In the film Click according to the news Britney Spears has her 23rd baby and Kevin Federline gets a job. Also Michael Jackson cloned himself and sued himself for molesting himself.

Notes and references