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Clockwise from top-left: the war against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul; Islamic suicide terrorist Salman Abedi bombs the Manchester Arena following a concert by Ariana Grande, killing 22 people and himself; a view of the Solar eclipse of August 21 ("Great American Eclipse") in North Carolina; North Korea tests a series of nuclear missiles in the face of international condemnation, sparking a period of fierce tension between North Korea and the west; an earthquake strikes Central Mexico, killing 370 people; Spain rejects the Catalan declaration of independence after the Catalan independence referendum, leading to massive protests and strikes; Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd attending a music festival in Las Vegas, killing 60 people and himself and becoming the deadliest mass shooting in the United States; after 13 years of orbiting Saturn, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ends its mission.

Millennium: 3rd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
2017 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar2017
MMXVII
Ab urbe condita2770
Armenian calendar1466
ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶ
Assyrian calendar6767
Baháʼí calendar173–174
Balinese saka calendar1938–1939
Bengali calendar1424
Berber calendar2967
British Regnal year65 Eliz. 2 – 66 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2561
Burmese calendar1379
Byzantine calendar7525–7526
Chinese calendar丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4714 or 4507
    — to —
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4715 or 4508
Coptic calendar1733–1734
Discordian calendar3183
Ethiopian calendar2009–2010
Hebrew calendar5777–5778
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2073–2074
 - Shaka Samvat1938–1939
 - Kali Yuga5117–5118
Holocene calendar12017
Igbo calendar1017–1018
Iranian calendar1395–1396
Islamic calendar1438–1439
Japanese calendarHeisei 29
(平成29年)
Javanese calendar1950–1951
Juche calendar106
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4350
Minguo calendarROC 106
民國106年
Nanakshahi calendar549
Thai solar calendar2560
Tibetan calendar阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
2143 or 1762 or 990
    — to —
阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
2144 or 1763 or 991
Unix time1483228800 – 1514764799

2017 (MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.[1]

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