Events in the year 2017 in Greece.
Incumbents President: Prokopis Pavlopoulos Prime Minister: Alexis Tsipras
Events
Michael Skibbe is manager of the Greece National Football team.
January
Greek and Turkish warships engaged in a brief standoff over contested Aegean islets, keeping tensions high. Greece is given a rating of 35/40 regarding political rights, and a rating of 49/60 regarding civil liberties, by Freedom House. February 10 February – the Cypriot parliament votes in favour of a bill by National People's Front party (ELAM), for commemorating the 1950 Cypriot enosis referendum (Enosis Union with Greece) in schools every year. The decision was received negatively by Turkish Cypriot politicians.
May 13 May – A train derailment in Adendro killed three people and hits a house. 13 May - "This Is Love", performed by Demy, represents Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest. 18 May - UPSat is deployed from the International Space Station, making it the first satellite manufactured in Greece to get into orbit.
June 12 June – The 6.3 Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing one and injuring ten.
July 21 July – The 6.6 Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing two and injuring 480.
September
9 September - The Greek FIBA team reaches the quarterfinals of the FIBA EuroBasket 2017, losing to Russia 69-74 in the process.
November The Greek association football team reaches the playoffs of FIFA World Cup qualification, losing to Croatia 4-1 on aggregate in the process. 15 November – In one of the greatest disasters in the area in decades, flash floods hit Western Attica, particularly the Athens suburb of Mandra, killing twenty-three.
December December – Rebetiko, a Greek music genre, is added to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
Deaths
13 January – Magic Alex, or Yanni Alexis Mardas, electronics engineer (b. 1942). 7 February – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, philosopher and politician, MP (b. 1913) 17 February – Evangelos Basiakos, politician, MP (b. 1954). 29 May – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Greek Prime Minister (b. 1918). 5 June – Georgios Masadis, footballer (b. 1944) 13 November – Yannis Kapsis, journalist and politician, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1929). 16 December – Angela Kokkola, politician, former MEP (b. 1932).Πέθανε η Αγγέλα Κοκκόλα
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