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

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).

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)