This article is about the year 2017. Millennium: 3rd millennium Centuries: 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century Decades: 1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s Years: 2014 2015 2016 – 2017 – 2018 2019 2020 2017 by topic: News by month Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec Arts Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television Politics Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states Science and technology Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight Sports Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league By place Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Germany – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Russia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe Other topics Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments – Disestablishments Works and introductions categories Works – Introductions v · d · e 2017 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 2017 MMXVII Ab urbe condita 2770 Armenian calendar 1466 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ Bahá'í calendar 173 – 174 Bengali calendar 1424 Berber calendar 2967 Buddhist calendar 2561 Burmese calendar 1379 Byzantine calendar 7525 – 7526 Chinese calendar 丙申年十二月初四日 (4653/4713-12-4) — to — 丁酉年十一月十四日 (4654/4714-11-14) Coptic calendar 1733 – 1734 Ethiopian calendar 2009 – 2010 Hebrew calendar 5777 – 5778 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat 2073 – 2074  - Shaka Samvat 1939 – 1940  - Kali Yuga 5118 – 5119 Holocene calendar 12017 Iranian calendar 1395 – 1396 Islamic calendar 1438 – 1439 Japanese calendar Heisei 29 (平成29年) Korean calendar 4350 Thai solar calendar 2560 Unix time 1483228800 – 1514764799 v · d · e Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 2017

2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on a Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2017th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 8th of the 2010s decade. Predicted and scheduled events January – ESA Solar Orbiter (SOLO), will orbit the Sun to perform close observations of the polar regions of the Sun January 1 – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey are set to enter the European Union. February 11 – Penumbral lunar eclipse February 26 – Annular solar eclipse will be visible from parts of South America and Africa. March 31 – The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.1 June – Confederations cup 2017 July 1 – The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by universal suffrage is scheduled to take office. August 7 – Partial lunar eclipse August 21 – total solar eclipse, the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental U.S. since February 26, 1979. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most 2 minutes 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky at 36.9715 degrees North and 87.6559 degrees West occurring at 18:25.4716 UTC.2 Date unknown The government of China has announced it will start sending probes to the Moon in 2017, resulting in a manned Chinese landing on the moon in a few years.3 South Korea states that it will attempt a space mission by this year.4 Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars.5 India will complete construction on the Dibang Valley Dam near Roing and Anini.6 In fiction Literature The epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) takes place in this year. Set a century after the Russian Revolution, 2017 is title of a novel by Olga Slavnikova, and winner of the 2006 Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize. The Carbon Diaries: 2017, the second book in a teenage diary series about climate change is set in this year. Computer and video games Ever17 (2002) Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (2005) Earth Defense Force 2017 (2006) Phoenix Wright: Justice For All begins in 2017, but ends in 2018. Film Cherry 2000 (1987) The Running Man (1987): The beginning events occur in 2017. Barb Wire (1996) Click (2006) Surrogates (2009) Music The Billy Joel song, Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) is set in this year. The Sheryl Crow song "Gasoline" from her album Detours tells of a gas shortage in the year 2017. Television Code-E (2007) Code Geass The events of the first season take place in 2017. (However since the series uses a different calendar system, in this case the a.t.b. calendar system, the 2017 of their continuity is 1962 in ours). References ^ "New target set for receiving waste at Yucca". ReviewJournal.com. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jul-19-Wed-2006/news/8571904.html.  ^ Hermit.org Solar Eclipse Information ^ "China Wants Men on Moon by 2017". FoxNews.com. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178722,00.html.  ^ South Korea reaches for space in 2017 ^ "Russia's Gazprom Plans Pipeline to Italy". VOA News. 2007-06-26. http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48725624_world_russias_gazprom_plans_pipeline_italy.  ^ HydroWorld – Big Dams