2017 in Greece
Events in the year 2017 in Greece.
Incumbents
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, killing one and injuring ten.
July
- 21 July – The 6.6 Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII, 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.
- 7 February – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, philosopher and politician, MP
- 17 February – Evangelos Basiakos, politician, MP.
- 29 May – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister.
- 5 June – Georgios Masadis, footballer
- 13 November – Yannis Kapsis, journalist and politician, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- 16 December – Angela Kokkola, politician, former MEP.