2017 in Greece

Events in the year 2017 in Greece.

Incumbents

• President: Prokopis Pavlopoulos
• Prime Minister: Alexis Tsipras

Events

• Michael Skibbe is manager of the Greece National Football team.

January

• Greek and Turkish warships engaged in a brief standoff over contested Aegean islets, keeping tensions high.
• Greece is given a rating of 35/40 regarding political rights, and a rating of 49/60 regarding civil liberties, by Freedom House.

May

• 13 May – A train derailment in Adendro killed three people and hits a house.
• 13 May - "This Is Love", performed by Demy, represents Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest.
• 18 May - UPSat is deployed from the International Space Station, making it the first satellite manufactured in Greece to get into orbit.

June

• 12 June – The 6.3 Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing one and injuring ten.

July

• 21 July – The 6.6 Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing two and injuring 480.

September

• 9 September - The Greek FIBA team reaches the quarterfinals of the FIBA EuroBasket 2017, losing to Russia 69-74 in the process.

November

• The Greek association football team reaches the playoffs of FIFA World Cup qualification, losing to Croatia 4-1 on aggregate in the process.
• 15 November – In one of the greatest disasters in the area in decades, flash floods hit Western Attica, particularly the Athens suburb of Mandra, killing twenty-three.

December

• December – Rebetiko, a Greek music genre, is added to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.

Deaths

• 13 January – Magic Alex, or Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics engineer (b. 1942).
• 7 February – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, philosopher and politician, MP (b. 1913)
• 17 February – Evangelos Basiakos, politician, MP (b. 1954).
• 29 May – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister (b. 1918).
• 5 June – Georgios Masadis, footballer (b. 1944)
• 13 November – Yannis Kapsis, journalist and politician, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1929).
• 16 December – Angela Kokkola, politician, former MEP (b. 1932).

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