2017 in Spain

The following lists events in the year 2017 in Spain.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Felipe VI
• Prime Minister: Mariano Rajoy

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

• 3 January – More than 1100 migrants fight with riot police on the border to the town of Ceuta.

February

• 17 February – Iñaki Urdangarin (Brother-in-Law of Spain's King), found guilty of evading taxes
• 18 February – Protest «Volem acollir»

July

• 2017 Spain transportation strikes
• 28 July – 2017 Barcelona train crash

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)
• 4 January – Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, painter (b. 1932)
• 15 January – Luis Gámir, politician (b. 1942)
• 23 January – Bimba Bosé, model, designer, actress and singer (b. 1975)
• 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)
• 5 September – Eloísa Álvarez, politician, Mayor of Soria (1999–2003), Deputy (2004–2011) and Senator for Soria (2011–2015) (born 1956)
• 7 September – Tomás Villanueva, politician, Vice President of Castile and León region (2001–2003) (born 1953; heart attack)
• 8 September – José Antonio Souto, jurist, academic and politician, Mayor of Santiago de Compostela 1979–1981 (born 1938)
• 12 September – Xohana Torres, Galician language writer, poet, narrator and playwright (born 1931)
• 16 September – Bautista Álvarez, Galician nationalist politician (born 1933)
• 19 September – José Salcedo, film editor, Goya winner (1989, 1996, 2000) (born c.1949)
• 28 September – Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Spanish film director and producer (born 1927)
• 4 October – Jesús Mosterín, anthropologist and philosopher of science (born 1941)

References