- April 13
- The U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB, the world's largest non-nuclear weapon, at an ISIL base in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. [1269]
- May 7
- France elects Emmanuel Macron President with 66 percent of the vote. [1294.44]
- May 9
- South Korea elects Moon Jae-in as president, with 41 percent of votes. [1294.33]
- May 12
- Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack, which goes on to affect at least 150 countries. [1269]
- May 22
- A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 500. [1269]
- June 1
- The U.S. announces its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in due time. [1269]
- June 3
- An Islamic terror attack on London Bridge, United Kingdom kills 8 and injures 48. [1269]
- June 5
- Montenegro joins NATO as the 29th member. [1269]
- June 7
- Two Daesh terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by five terrorists against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, Iran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded. It is the first Daesh attack in Iran. [1269]
- June 8
- A general election is held in the UK, three years before the next one was due, resulting in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Theresa May, losing their majority in Parliament. The Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, makes gains for the first time since 1997. [1269]
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- June 10
- The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan. [1269]
- June 12
- American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison. (He dies a week later.) [1269]
- June 14
- A fire at Grenfell Tower in London, England kills 71 people. [1269]
- June 18
- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps fire six surface-to-surface mid-range ballistic missiles from domestic bases targeting Daesh forces in the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier in the month. [1269]
- June 21
- The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, is destroyed by Daesh. [1269]
- July 4
- Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs after it successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. [1269]
- July 7
- The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is voted for by 122 states. [1269]
- July 10
- Mosul is declared fully liberated from Daesh. [1269]
- July 23
- Death of Snooty at age 69 in the South Florida Museum; world's oldest manatee in captivity. [1551.36]
- August 5
- The UN Security Council unanimously approves fresh sanctions on North Korean trade and investment. [1269]
- Mauritania holds a constitutional referendum for approval of proposed amendments to the constitution. [1269]
- August 17
- The first observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817) is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected. Data from the event provide confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold. [1269]
- August 21
- A total solar eclipse is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. Prime viewing location is near Carbondale, Illinois. [1269] [1588.14]
- August 25
- (to August 30) Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion, making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history, tied with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. [1269]
- September 1
- Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats in response to United States sanctions. [1269]
- September 3
- North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. [1269]
- September 6
- (to September 10) The Caribbean and United States are struck by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane that is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The storm causes at least 146 deaths and $64.2 billion in damage. [1269]
- September 10
- Hurricane Irma strikes Florida Keys islands as Category 4 storm. [1304.66]
- September 13
- The International Olympic Committee awards Paris, France and Los Angeles, California the right to host the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, respectively. [1269]
- September 15
- Cassini-Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere. [1269]
- September 19
- A 7.1Mw earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing more than 350, leaving up to 6,000 injured and thousands more homeless. [1269]
- (to September 20) Hurricane Maria makes landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. Maria causes at least 112 deaths and damages estimated in excess of US$91.6 billion. [1269]
- September 25
- Iraqi Kurdistan votes in a referendum to become an independent state, in defiance of the Iraq government. [1269]
- October 1
- Fifty-eight people are killed and 851 injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history. [1269] [1439.62]
- October 12
- The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO, and is immediately followed by Israel. [1269]
- October 14
- A massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 512 people and injures 316 others. [1269]
- October 17
- Raqqa, Syria is declared fully liberated from Daesh. [1269]
- October 25
- At the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping assumes his second term as General Secretary, and the political theory Xi Jinping Thought is written into the party's constitution. [1269]
- October 27
- Based on the results of a previously held referendum, Catalonia declares independence from Spain, but the Catalan Republic is not recognised by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation. [1269]
- November 2
- A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the first great ape to be described for almost a century. [1269]
- November 3
- Both Deir ez-Zor in Syria and Al-Qa'im in Iraq are declared liberated from Daesh. [1269]
- November 5
- The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from the offshore law firm Appleby, along with business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions that reveal offshore financial activities on behalf of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders. The newspaper shares the documents with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and asks it to lead the investigation. [1269]
- November 12
- A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran leaving at least 530 dead and over 70,000 homeless. [1269]
- November 15
- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest, as the military take control of the country. (He resigns six days later, after 37 years of rule.) [1269]
- A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US$450 million at Christie's in New York, a new record price for any work of art. [1269]
- November 20
- Nature publishes an article recognising the high-velocity asteroid ?Oumuamua as originating from outside the Solar System, i.e. the first known interstellar object. [1269]
- November 22
- The International Court of Justice finds Ratko Mladic guilty of genocide committed in Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian War, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. He is sentenced to life in prison. [1269]
- November 24
- A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded. [1269]
- December 5
- Russia is banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee, following an investigation into state-sponsored doping. [1269]
- December 6
- The United States officially recognises Jerusalem as Israel's capital. [1269]
- December 9
- The Iraqi military announces that it has "fully liberated" all of Iraq's territory from Daesh and retaken full control of the Iraqi-Syrian border. [1269]
- December 14
- The Walt Disney Company announces that it will acquire most of 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox film studio, for $66 billion. [1269]
- December 22
- The UN Security Council votes 15-0 in favor of additional sanctions on North Korea, including measures to slash the country's petroleum imports by up to 90%. [1269]
- December 24
- Guatemala announces that they will move their Israeli embassy to Jerusalem. [1269]
- December 26
- Honduras and Panama announce that they will move their Israeli embassy to Jerusalem. [1269]
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