# 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)