2017 in the Netherlands

This article lists major events that happened in 2017 in the Netherlands.

Incumbents

• 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

• 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

• 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