2017

2017 was standard year in the Common Era. This year is famous for being the start of the Trump Era in the United States, as well as seeing Emmanuel Macron become president of France. In addition, the year saw the rise of tension between the United States are North Korea.

Major Events

 * January 20 - US President Donald Trump takes office 🇺🇸
 * January 21 - Women's March 🇺🇸
 * January 27 - President Trump temporarly restricts immigrants from 7 middle-eastern countries 🇺🇸
 * March 10 - South Korean President Park Guen-hye is removed from office
 * March 29 - The UK invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union
 * April 6 - The US launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles in Syria 🇺🇸
 * May 7 - Emmanuel Macron wins the 2017 French presidential election
 * May 14 - President Macron takes office
 * May 22 - ISIS bombs an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England
 * June 1 - Donald Trump announces the USA will leave the Paris Agreement 🇺🇸
 * June 5 - Montenegro joines NATO
 * June 10 - The 2017 World Expo in Astana, Kazakhstan opens
 * September 6 - 10 - Hurricane Irma strikes the Caribbean
 * September 25 - Iraqi-Kurdistan votes to succeed from Iraq, although Iraq will not let them
 * Otober 1 - Stephan Paddock kills 58 in Las Vegas at a concert, making it the most deadly mass shooting in America 🇺🇸
 * October 1 - Catalonia has an unrecognized vote to succeed from Spain
 * October 17 - Raqqa is liberated from ISIS 🇺🇸
 * October 27 - Catalonia declares independence from Spain
 * November 3 - Two cities are liberated from ISIL
 * November 15 - Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest
 * December 5 - Russia is banned from the 2018 Olympic Games
 * December 9 - Iraq takes away of ISIS's control of the Syrian border

Major Conflicts

 * Syrian Civil War    🇺🇸
 * War in Afghanistan 🇺🇸
 * Mexican Drug War
 * Kurdish-Turkish Conflict
 * Somali Civil War

Births

 * August 31 - Prince Gabriel

Deaths

 * January 7 - Mário Soares
 * January 8 - Akbar Rafsanjani
 * January 10 - Roman Herzog
 * Febuary 1 - Étienne Tshisekedi
 * Febuary 13 - Kim Jong-nam
 * Febuary 25 - Bill Paxton 🇺🇸
 * March 3 - René Préval
 * April 20 - Magdalena Abakanowicz
 * May 12 - Mauno Koivisto
 * May 23 - Roger Moore
 * June 9 - Adam West 🇺🇸
 * October 2 - Tom Petty 🇺🇸
 * December 5 - Michael I of Romania