Editing 2017 (section)

== Events ==
* January 1 - [[Abdulkadir Masharipov|Istanbul nightclub shooting]]
* January 3 - [[2017 Chicago torture incident]]
* January 18 - [[Federico Guevara Elizondo]] commits a [[school shooting]] at the Northeastern American College.
* January 19 - [[Yahya Jammeh]] is finally forced from power in the Gambia following interventions from other neighboring countries, allowing Adama Barrow to finally take office.
* January 20 - [[Donald Trump]] officially takes office as the 45th President of the United States.
* January 28 - [[Tahrir al-Sham]] is founded via a merger of several other jihadist organizations, including [[Al-Nusra Front]].
* January 29 - [[Alexandre Bissonnette|Quebec City mosque shooting]]
* February 1 - [[Antifa]] protesters attend an event featuring right-wing activist [[Milo Yiannopolous]] at the University of California, Berkeley, causing widespread property damage and eventually forcing the event to be canceled.
* February 13 - Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of [[Kim Jong-un]], is assassinated, possibly on Jong-un's orders.
* March 10 - [[Park Geun-Hye]] is removed as President of South Korea.
* March 31 - Park Geun-Hye is arrested and charged with abuse of power, coercion, bribery and leaking government secrets.
* May 22 - The Manchester Arena bombing is perpetrated by [[Salman Abedi]].
* May 23 - [[Abu Sayyaf]] and allied jihadist groups begin the Battle of Marawi.
* May 26 - [[Jeremy Joseph Christian|2017 Portland train attack]]
* June - The [[Communist Party of China]] begins establishing re-education centers for Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang autonomous region.
* June 7 - [[The Islamic State]] attacks the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of [[Ruhollah Khomeini]], both in Tehran, Iran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded.
* June 8 - [[Randy Stair|Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting]]
* June 14 - [[Grenfell Tower fire]]
* June 27 - [[FARC]] officially disarms and dissolves.
* June 30 - [[Dr. Henry Bello|Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack]]
* August 12 - The [[Unite the Right rally]] takes place. Following the rally, [[James Alex Fields Jr.]] injures 19 and kills 1 in a vehicular assault.
* August 22 - [[Jonathan Schmitz]] is released from prison.
* September 9 - Beginning of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon.
* September 13 - [[Caleb Sharpe|Freeman High School shooting]]
* September 24 - [[Emanuel Samson|Burnette Chapel shooting]]
* September 25 - [[José Eduardo dos Santos]] steps down as President of Angola.
* September 30 - [[Abdulahi Hasan Sharif]] rammed into Edmonton police constable Mike Chernyk with a car and later stab him, resulting Chernyk injured then later on he stole a rental truck and struck four pedestrians and left them all injured during a police chase.
* October 1 - [[Stephen Paddock]] commits the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, killing 58 people and injuring 869 others before committing suicide.
* October 14 - [[Al-Shabaab]] perpetrates two truck bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 587 people and injuring 316 others. The attack is the deadliest in Somalian history.
* October 23 - The Battle of Marawi ends.
* October 31 - [[Sayfullo Saipov|2017 New York City truck attack]] 
* November 5 - [[Devin Patrick Kelley]] commits the Sutherland Springs Church shooting, killing 26 people (one being an unborn child) and injures 20 others. Kelley later committed suicide after he lost control of his car and crashed during a high-speed chase.
* November 13 to 14 - [[Kevin Janson Neal|Rancho Tehama Reserve shootings]]
* November 21 - [[Robert Mugabe]] is ousted as President of Zimbabwe by members of his own party, [[ZANU-PF]]. He is subsequently replaced by Vice President [[Emmerson Mnangagwa]].
* November 22 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) finds [[Ratko Mladić]] guilty of ten charges (one of [[genocide]], five of [[crimes against humanity]] and four of violations of the laws or customs of war) and sentences him to life in prison.
* December 4 - Former President of Yemen [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] is assassinated at his home in Sana'a by [[Houthis|Houthi]] forces.
* December 7 - [[William Atchison|Aztec High School shooting]]
* December 13 - [[Isauro Aguirre]] is found guilty of first-degree murder and [[torture]] in regards to the 2013 death of his stepson, Gabriel Fernandez, and is sentenced to death.
* December 27 - [[Alberto Fujimori]] is pardoned.
* Unknown - [[Derek Chauvin]] places his knee on a 14-year-old boy, almost killing him and leading to his notoriety, but thankfully the victim survives.