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

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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.

References

^ "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.

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