2017 in the Czech Republic

• President – Miloš Zeman • Prime Minister – Bohuslav Sobotka then Andrej Babiš ==Popular events==

• 22 January – Green Day themselves are coming back to the Czech Republic along with the new album and classic hits after seven years. • 27 January – A Czech court rules in favour of a nursing school that banned a Somali refugee student from wearing a headscarf. • 6 February – A Prague Fast-Food Restaurant Bans the Burka. • 19 August – A famous English singer Robbie Williams performed in the open together with a legendary synthpop duo Erasure. • 19 September – A Czech appeals court upholds a lower court ruling that went against the headscarf. • 21 October - ANO, (lit. "yes") a right-wing populist political party led by businessman and Andrej Babiš wins, Okamura and the Pirates win a large parcentage and the Social Democrats collapse. ==In popular culture ==

Sports • 25–29 January – The 2017 European Figure Skating Championships were hosted by the Czech Figure Skating Association. • 2–14 May – The 2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was hosted in the cities of Plzeň and Příbram, and the towns of Přeštice and Domažlice. • 16–25 June – The EuroBasket Women 2017 was hosted in the Czech cities of Prague and Hradec Králové. Television • 2 January – First episode of the television series Svět pod hlavou was aired (first of ten episodes). ==Deaths==

(1932–2017) in 2012 • 16 January – Jiří Navrátil, scout leader (b. 1923). • 20 January – Naděžda Kavalírová, physician and human rights activist (b. 1923). • 23 January – Jaroslav Vacek, Indologist (b. 1943). • 27 January – Petr Kop, volleyball player and Olympian (b. 1937). • 28 January – Lubomír Doležel, literary theorist (b. 1922). • 7 February – Antonín Přidal, writer and translator (b. 1935). • 11 February – Jarmila Šuláková, folk singer and actress (b. 1929). • 14 February – Jiří Lanský, high jumper and Olympian (b. 1933). • 16 February – Josef Augusta, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1946). • 23 February – Ivo Svoboda, politician (b. 1948). • 18 March – Miloslav Vlk, cardinal and Archbishop of Prague (b. 1932). • 22 March – • Alexandr Kliment, writer (b. 1929). • Helena Štáchová, puppeteer (b. 1944). • 26 March – Věra Špinarová, singer (b. 1951). • 6 April – Libuše Havelková, actress (b. 1924). • 18 April – Augustin Bubník, ice hockey player and Olympian (b. 1928). • 23 April – František Rajtoral, footballer (b. 1986). • 24 April – • František Brůna, handball player (b. 1944). • Dagmar Lerchová, figure skater and Olympian (b. 1930). • 19 May – David Bystroň, footballer (b. 1982). • 31 May – Jiří Bělohlávek, conductor (b. 1946). • 2 June – Jaroslav Kořán, Mayor of Prague, translator (b. 1940). • 15 June – Olbram Zoubek, sculptor (b. 1926). • 25 June – Eduard Zeman, politician (b. 1948). • 16 July – Eva Děpoltová, operatic soprano (b. 1945). • 19 July – Karel Franta, painter (b. 1928). • 22 July – František Ševčík, ice hockey player and Olympian (b. 1942). • 25 July – Ivana Loudová, composer (b. 1941). • 19 November – Jana Novotná, tennis player, (b. 1968). • 2 December – Iva Ritschelová, economist, (b. 1964) ==References==