2017 in Spain
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, Fernando López Miras
- 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, 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.
Popular culture
Sports
- 6 to 8 January - 2017 International Tournament of Spain
- 6 to 19 March - FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada
- 24 to 30 April - 2017 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell
- 19 August to 10 September - 2017 Vuelta a España
Film
- 4 February - 31st Goya Awards presented, to honour the best in Spanish films of 2016
Deaths
- 2 January – Moruca, footballer
- 4 January – Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, painter
- 15 January – Luis Gámir, politician
- 23 January – Bimba Bosé, model, designer, actress and singer
- 5 June – Juan Goytisolo, poet, essayist, and novelist
- 5 July – Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Spanish-Vatican academic, journalist and physician
- 3 September – Joan Colom, photographer
- 5 September – Eloísa Álvarez, politician, Mayor of Soria, Deputy and Senator for Soria
- 7 September – Tomás Villanueva, politician, Vice President of Castile and León region
- 8 September – José Antonio Souto, jurist, academic and politician, Mayor of Santiago de Compostela 1979–1981
- 12 September – Xohana Torres, Galician language writer, poet, narrator and playwright
- 16 September – Bautista Álvarez, Galician nationalist politician
- 19 September – José Salcedo, film editor, Goya winner
- 28 September – Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Spanish film director and producer
- 4 October – Jesús Mosterín, anthropologist and philosopher of science