2017 in Spain

The following lists events in the year 2017 in Spain.

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See also:	Other events of 2017 List of years in Spain

Incumbents

• Monarch: Felipe VI
• Prime Minister: Mariano Rajoy

Events

January

• 3 January - More than 1100 migrants fight with riot police on the border to the town of Ceuta.[1]

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

Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje

• 2 January – Moruca, footballer (b. 1932).[2]
• 4 January – Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, painter (b. 1932).[3]
• 15 January – Luis Gámir, politician (b. 1942).[4]
• 23 January – Bimba Bosé, model, designer, actress and singer (b. 1975).[5]
• 5 June – Juan Goytisolo, poet, essayist, and novelist (b. 1931)
• 3 September – Joan Colom, photographer (born 1921)[6]
• 5 September – Eloísa Álvarez, politician, Mayor of Soria (1999–2003), Deputy (2004–2011) and Senator for Soria (2011–2015) (born 1956)[7]
• 7 September – Tomás Villanueva, politician, Vice President of Castile and León region (2001–2003) (born 1953; heart attack)[8]
• 8 September – José Antonio Souto, jurist, academic and politician, Mayor of Santiago de Compostela 1979–1981 (born 1938)[9]
• 12 September – Xohana Torres, Galician language writer, poet, narrator and playwright (born 1931)[10]
• 16 September – Bautista Álvarez, Galician nationalist politician (born 1933)[11]
• 19 September – José Salcedo, film editor, Goya winner (1989, 1996, 2000) (born c.1949)[12]
• 28 September – Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, Spanish film director and producer (born 1927)[13]
• 4 October – Jesús Mosterín, anthropologist and philosopher of science (born 1941)[14]

References

1. "BATTLE FOR EUROPE: More than 1,100 migrants fight riot police as they storm Spanish border".
2. "Luto en el Racing de Santander por la muerte de Manuel Fernández Mora "Moruca"". abc.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2017.
3. "Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje: Fallecimiento". enmemoria.lavanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2017.
4. "Fallece Luis Gámir, presidente del consejo consultivo de privatizaciones". El Pais (in Spanish). 15 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
5. "Muere Bimba, la torera sin capote de la familia Dominguín Bosé". vanitatis.elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 January 2017.
6. Muere el fotógrafo Joan Colom, el ilustre retratista de la Barcelona marginal (in Spanish)
7. Fallece la socialista Eloisa Álvarez, la primera mujer en alcanzar la Alcaldía de Soria (in Spanish)
8. Fallece el exvicepresidente de la Junta, Tomás Villanueva (in Spanish)
9. Fallece José Antonio Souto Paz, primer alcalde de Santiago de la democracia (in Spanish)
10. Muere escritora Xohana Torres a los 85 años (in Spanish)
11. Muere Bautista Álvarez, histórico del BNG (in Spanish)
12. Fallece a los 68 años José Salcedo, montador de Almodóvar (in Spanish)
13. Muere Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, el primer cineasta 'global' de España (in Spanish)
14. Muere Jesús Mosterín, el filósofo de espíritu científico. (in Spanish)