2017

This article is about the year 2017. For the number see 2017 (number).

Millennium:	3rd millennium
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 – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight

Sports

Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league

By place

Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Hungary – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2017 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2017 MMXVII
Ab urbe condita	2770
Armenian calendar	1466 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6767
Bahá'í calendar	173–174
Bengali calendar	1424
Berber calendar	2967
British Regnal year	65 Eliz. 2 – 66 Eliz. 2
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	2073–2074
- Shaka Samvat	1939–1940
- Kali Yuga	5118–5119
Holocene calendar	12017
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	1017–1018
Iranian calendar	1395–1396
Islamic calendar	1438–1439
Japanese calendar	Heisei 29 (平成29年)
Juche calendar	106
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4350
Minguo calendar	ROC 106 民國106年
Thai solar calendar	2560
Unix time	1483228800–1514764799

2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on a Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2017th year of the Common Era, or of the Anno Domini designation; the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

January

• The ESA's Solar Orbiter (SOLO) will be launched to orbit the Sun, aiming to perform close observations of its polar regions.

February

• February 11 – A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur.
• February 26 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible from parts of South America and Africa.

July

• July 1 – The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by universal suffrage is scheduled to take office.

August

• August 7 – A partial lunar eclipse will occur.
• August 21 – A total solar eclipse will take place. This will be 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. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most for 2 minutes and 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 UTC.

October

• NASA's Juno Jupiter exploration probe is scheduled to end its mission and be deorbited, after spending over a year in Jupiter orbit.

December

• December 17 – NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011.

Date unknown

• China plans to launch an unmanned sample-return mission to the Moon in 2017, Chang'e 5, with a manned lunar landing to follow in the 2020s.
• NASA plans to launch the exoplanet-seeking TESS mission in 2017.
• In-car internet access will become the norm, with wireless computing systems built into almost every new car, according to a 2012 survey of leading car company executives.
• Russian natural gas company Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars by 2017.
• The Dibang Valley Dam in Arunachal Pradesh, India, will be completed, becoming India's largest hydroelectric dam and the tallest concrete dam in the world.
• The remaining classified documents pertaining to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy will be released to the public.
• JAXA's robotic SELENE-2 lunar mission is expected to be launched in 2017.
• The ESA's CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting satellite will be launched in 2017.
• The United States Navy plans to retire its Marine Mammal Program in 2017, replacing its trained minesweeping dolphins with robotic submarines.
• The United States plans to deploy additional missile interceptors on its Pacific coast by 2017 to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles.

In fiction

Literature

• The epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) takes place in this year.
• Set a century after the Russian Revolution, 2017 is a novel by Olga Slavnikova, and the winner of the 2006 Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize.

Computer and video games

• Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam (1994): The "Gray Tremor Plague" is said to occur in 2017, killing one-third of the world's population.
• Ever17 (2002)
• Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (2005)
• Earth Defense Force 2017 (2006)
• Phoenix Wright: Justice For All (2006): The story begins in 2017, but ends in 2018.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011): The ending of the game takes place in 2017.

Film

• Oblivion (2013): The events that triggered the destruction of Earth occurred in 2017, when an alien species destroyed the moon.
• Cherry 2000 (1987)
• The Running Man (1987): The beginning events occur in 2017.
• Barb Wire (1996)
• Click (2006): February 5, 2017, is featured as the date when Adam Sandler's character becomes CEO of his architectural firm.
• Surrogates (2009)

Music

• The Billy Joel song "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" is set in this year.
• The Sheryl Crow song "Gasoline", from her 2008 album Detours, describes a global oil shortage in 2017.

Television

• The Name of the Game: A 1971 episode of the series is entitled L.A. 2017. Notable as the first feature-length piece directed by Steven Spielberg, the episode features Gene Barry as a magazine publisher transported to a dystopian Los Angeles in 2017, where the residents have been driven underground by pollution.
• Code-E (2007)
• Code Geass (2006): The events of the first season of the series are said to take place in 2017. However, since Code Geass uses the alternate history a.t.b. calendar system, the year 2017 of its continuity is chronologically equivalent to 1962 AD.