2017 AD
- January 16 – Turkish Airlines Flight 6491, a cargo flight en route from Hong Kong to Istanbul via Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, crashes in a residential area while attempting to land at Manas International Airport, Bishkek, killing all four crew members on board and 35 people on the ground.
- January 20 – Donald Trump and Mike Pence are sworn in as the 45th President and 48th Vice President of the United States.
- April 7 – 2017 Stockholm truck attack
- May 9–13 – The Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is won by Portuguese entrant Salvador Sobral with the song “Amar Pelos Dois“
- June 3 – London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
- June 14 – Grenfell Tower fire
- August 17 – 2017 Barcelona attacks: 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drives a van into pedestrians on La Rambla in Barcelona, killing 13 people and injuring at least 130 others.
- September 6 – 2017–2018 Spanish constitutional crisis
- October 1
- Catalonia is holding a referendum on independence despite Spain’s government not allowing it.
- 60 people are killed and 867 more injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas, surpassing the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history
- December 6 – Finland independence is celebrated, 100 years after it was declared.
