2017 in the Netherlands
This article lists major events that happened in 2017 in the Netherlands.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Willem-Alexander
- Prime Minister: Mark Rutte
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Khadija Arib
- President of the Senate: Ankie Broekers-Knol
Events
- 21 January: Women's March in Amsterdam and The Hague.
- 26 January: Ard van der Steur resigns as Minister of Security and Justice.
- 1 March: Arno Brok is appointed to be the King's Commissioner of Friesland.
- 3 March: Prime Minister Mark Rutte refuses to allow Turkish authorities to organise a demonstration on Dutch territory as part of the campaign for the upcoming constitutional referendum; beginning of the 2017 Dutch–Turkish diplomatic incident.
- 11 March: 2017 Dutch–Turkish diplomatic incident.
- 15 March: Dutch general election, 2017.
- 17 March: Pauline Krikke takes over as Mayor of The Hague.
- 9 May: Dick Advocaat assumes for the third time the position of coach of the Netherlands national football team.
- 14 May: Feyenoord wins the 2016–17 Eredivisie.
- 27 May: at Eindhoven Airport, a parking building under construction collapses; no workers are hurt as it happens on a Saturday.
- July–August: 2017 fipronil eggs contamination.
- 1 September: Ahmed Marcouch becomes the new Mayor of Arnhem.
- 4 October: Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert and Tom Middendorp resign from the Ministry of Defence.
- 5 October: death of the Mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan, due to cancer.
- 18–22 October: Amsterdam Dance Event, Dutch DJ Martin Garrix wins DJ Mag's Top 100 first place for the second time.
- 26 October: installment of the Third Rutte cabinet.
- 1 November: King Willem-Alexander inaugurates the Rijnstraat 8 building in The Hague, new seat of both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Infrastructure, Public Works and Water Management.
- 18 November: pro-Zwarte Piet locals occupy the A7 motorway near Dokkum, Friesland to block demonstrators from getting into town and disrupt the Sinterklaas festivities.
- 29 November: Slobodan Praljak commits suicide in the courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague.
- 1 December: Jetta Klijnsma is appointed to be the King's Commissioner of Drenthe.
- 10 December: opening of Boskoop Snijdelwijk railway station.
- 13 December: Lilian Marijnissen succeeds to Emile Roemer as Leader of the Socialist Party.