2017 in Spain

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2017
in
Spain

Decades:
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
See also:Other events of 2017
List of years in Spain

The following lists events in the year 2017 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[]

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[]

Film[]

  • 4 February – 31st Goya Awards presented, to honour the best in Spanish films of 2016

Deaths[]

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)
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