The following lists events in the year 2017 in Spain.
Incumbents
Regional presidents
- Andalusia: Susana Diaz
- Aragón: Javier Lambán
- Asturias: Javier Fernandez
- Balearic Islands: Francina Armengol
- Basque Country: Iñigo Urkullu
- Canary Islands: Fernando Clavijo Batlle
- Cantabria: Miguel Ángel Revilla
- Castilla–La Mancha: Emiliano García-Page
- Castile and León: Juan Vicente Herrera
- Catalonia: Quim Torra
- Extremadura: Guillermo Fernández Vara
- Galicia: Alberto Núñez Feijóo
- La Rioja: José Ignacio Ceniceros
- Community of Madrid: Cristina Cifuentes
- Region of Murcia: Pedro Antonio Sánchez (until 4 April), Fernando López Miras (starting 3 May)
- Navarre: Uxue Barkos
- Valencian Community: Ximo Puig
- Ceuta: Juan Jesús Vivas
- Melilla: Juan José Imbroda
Events
January
February
- 17 February – Iñaki Urdangarin (Brother-in-Law of Spain's King), found guilty of evading taxes
- 18 February – Protest «Volem acollir»
July
August
- 17 August – 2017 Barcelona attack
October
- 1 October – 2017 Catalan independence referendum
- 3 October – General strike in Catalonia against police violence in the referendum.
- 27 October – The Catalan Parliament declares the Independence of the Catalan Republic from Spain. The Spanish government imposes direct rule to Catalonia.
November
- 8 November – General strike in Catalonia against the Catalan imprisoned leaders.
December
- 21 December – Elections to the Catalan Parliament (21D).
Popular culture
Sports
- 6 to 8 January – 2017 International Tournament of Spain (handball)
- 6 to 19 March – FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada
- 24 to 30 April – 2017 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell (tennis)
- 19 August to 10 September – 2017 Vuelta a España (cycling)
Film
- 4 February – 31st Goya Awards presented, to honour the best in Spanish films of 2016
Deaths
- 2 January – Moruca, footballer (b. 1932)[3]
- 4 January – Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, painter (b. 1932)[4]
- 15 January – Luis Gámir, politician (b. 1942)[5]
- 23 January – Bimba Bosé, model, designer, actress and singer (b. 1975)[6]
- 5 June – Juan Goytisolo, poet, essayist, and novelist (b. 1931)
- 5 July – Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Spanish-Vatican academic, journalist and physician (b. 1936)
- 3 September – Joan Colom, photographer (born 1921)[7]
- 5 September – Eloísa Álvarez, politician, Mayor of Soria (1999–2003), Deputy (2004–2011) and Senator for Soria (2011–2015) (born 1956)[8]
- 7 September – Tomás Villanueva, politician, Vice President of Castile and León region (2001–2003) (born 1953; heart attack)[9]
- 8 September – José Antonio Souto, jurist, academic and politician, Mayor of Santiago de Compostela 1979–1981 (born 1938)[10]
- 12 September – Xohana Torres, Galician language writer, poet, narrator and playwright (born 1931)[11]
- 16 September – Bautista Álvarez, Galician nationalist politician (born 1933)[12]
- 19 September – José Salcedo, film editor, Goya winner (1989, 1996, 2000) (born c.1949)[13]
- 28 September – Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Spanish film director and producer (born 1927)[14]
- 4 October – Jesús Mosterín, anthropologist and philosopher of science (born 1941)[15]
References
- ^ "Felipe VI | Biography & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ Gutteridge, Nick (January 3, 2017). "More than 1,100 migrants fight riot police as they storm Spanish borde". Express.co.uk.
- ^ "Luto en el Racing de Santander por la muerte de Manuel Fernández Mora "Moruca"". abc.es (in Spanish). 2 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
- ^ "Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje: Fallecimiento". enmemoria.lavanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2017.
- ^ "Fallece Luis Gámir, presidente del consejo consultivo de privatizaciones". El Pais (in Spanish). 15 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
- ^ "Muere Bimba, la torera sin capote de la familia Dominguín Bosé". vanitatis.elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). 23 January 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^ Imparcial, El. "Muere el fotógrafo Joan Colom, el ilustre retratista de la Barcelona marginal". El Imparcial. Archived from the original on September 3, 2017.
- ^ "Fallece la socialista Eloisa Álvarez, la primera mujer en alcanzar la Alcaldía de Soria". abc. September 5, 2017. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022.
- ^ "Fallece el exvicepresidente de la Junta, Tomás Villanueva". abc. September 7, 2017. Archived from the original on September 10, 2017.
- ^ "Fallece José Antonio Souto Paz, primer alcalde de Santiago de la democracia". www.20minutos.es - Últimas Noticias. September 9, 2017. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022.
- ^ "Muere escritora Xohana Torres a los 85 años". El Universal. September 13, 2017. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022.
- ^ "Muere Bautista Álvarez, histórico del BNG". Faro de Vigo. September 16, 2017. Archived from the original on December 30, 2018.
- ^ "Fallece a los 68 años José Salcedo, montador de Almodóvar". cadena SER. Europa Press. September 19, 2017. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022.
- ^ "Muere Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, el primer cineasta 'global' de España". ELMUNDO. September 28, 2017. Archived from the original on October 1, 2017.
- ^ Sádaba, Javier (October 4, 2017). "Muere Jesús Mosterín, el filósofo de espíritu científico". El País – via elpais.com.
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