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2017 in the Netherlands
Summary
This article lists major events that happened in
2017
in the
Netherlands
.
Years in the Netherlands
:
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Centuries
:
20th century
·
21st century
·
22nd century
Decades
:
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
2030s
2040s
Years
:
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
:
Willem-Alexander
[1]
Prime Minister
:
Mark Rutte
(
VVD
)
[2]
Speaker of the House of Representatives
:
Khadija Arib
(
PvdA
)
[3]
President of the Senate
:
Ankie Broekers-Knol
(
VVD
)
[4]
Events
edit
21 January:
Women's March
in
Amsterdam and The Hague
.
[5]
26 January:
Ard van der Steur
(
VVD
) resigns as Minister of Security and Justice.
[6]
1 March:
Arno Brok
(
VVD
) is appointed to be the
King's Commissioner
of
Friesland
.
3 March: Prime Minister
Mark Rutte
refuses to allow Turkish authorities to organise a demonstration on Dutch territory as part of the campaign for the
upcoming constitutional referendum
; beginning of the
2017 Dutch–Turkish diplomatic incident
.
11 March:
2017 Dutch–Turkish diplomatic incident
.
15 March:
Dutch general election, 2017
.
[7]
17 March:
Pauline Krikke
(
VVD
) takes over as
Mayor of The Hague
.
9 May:
Dick Advocaat
assumes for the third time the position of coach of the
Netherlands national football team
.
14 May:
Feyenoord
wins the
2016–17 Eredivisie
.
27 May: at
Eindhoven Airport
, a parking building under construction collapses; no workers are hurt as it happens on a Saturday.
[8]
July–August:
2017 fipronil eggs contamination
.
1 September:
Ahmed Marcouch
(
PvdA
) becomes the new Mayor of
Arnhem
.
4 October:
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert
(
VVD
) and
Tom Middendorp
resign from the Ministry of Defence.
5 October: death of the Mayor of Amsterdam,
Eberhard van der Laan
(
PvdA
), due to cancer.
18–22 October:
Amsterdam Dance Event
, Dutch DJ
Martin Garrix
wins
DJ Mag
'
s Top 100 first place for the second time.
26 October: installment of the
Third Rutte cabinet
.
[9]
1 November: King
Willem-Alexander
inaugurates the Rijnstraat 8 building in The Hague, new seat of both the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and
Ministry of Infrastructure, Public Works and Water Management
.
[10]
18 November: pro-
Zwarte Piet
locals occupy the
A7 motorway
near
Dokkum
,
Friesland
to block demonstrators from getting into town and disrupt the
Sinterklaas
festivities.
[11]
29 November:
Slobodan Praljak
commits suicide in the courtroom of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
, The Hague.
[12]
1 December:
Jetta Klijnsma
(
PvdA
) is appointed to be the
King's Commissioner
of
Drenthe
.
10 December: opening of
Boskoop Snijdelwijk railway station
.
13 December:
Lilian Marijnissen
succeeds to
Emile Roemer
as
Leader of the Socialist Party
.
See also
edit
2016–17 Eredivisie
List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2017
Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2017
References
edit
^
"King Willem-Alexander",
Royal House of the Netherlands
. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^
"Mark Rutte",
Government of the Netherlands
. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^
"President of the House",
House of Representatives
. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^
"A. Broekers-Knol (VVD)",
Senate
. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
^
"Over 3000 take part in Dutch Women's Marches against U.S. president Trump".
NL Times
. 23 January 2017
. Retrieved
30 March
2018
.
^
"Dutch minister resigns in drug baron row".
BBC News
. 2017
. Retrieved
30 March
2018
.
^
Cleppe, Pieter (3 March 2017). "Four things you need to know about the Dutch elections".
The Telegraph
. Retrieved
30 March
2018
.
^
Nieuwe parkeergarage Eindhoven Airport ingestort, RTL News (in Dutch). 27 May 2017.
^
Clara van de Wiel, "Bewindslieden Rutte III zijn beëdigd" (in Dutch),
NRC Handelsblad
, 26 October 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
^
Rijnstraat 8 (in Dutch), www.rijksvastgoedbedrijf.nl.
^
Zwarte Piet supporters close a motorway to stop a demo as Sinterklaas arrives in Dokkum, dutchnews.nl, 2017/11/18.
^
Bowcott, Owen (29 November 2017). "Bosnian Croat war criminal dies after taking poison in UN courtroom".
the Guardian
. Retrieved
30 March
2018
.