Events during the year 2017 in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

— Andrzej Duda (independent, supported by

Law and Justice Law and Justice ( pl, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , PiS) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Poland. Its chairman is Jarosław Kaczyński. It was founded in 2001 by Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński as a direct su ...

) *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

— Beata Szydło (

) (until 11 December), Mateusz Morawiecki (

) (starting 11 December) * Marshal of the Sejm — Marek Kuchciński (

) *

Marshal of the Senate The Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Marszałek Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the presiding officer of the Senate of Poland. The marshal is also third person according to the Polish order of precedence, after President ...

—

Stanisław Karczewski Stanisław Karczewski (born 14 November 1955, in Warsaw) is a Polish politician and surgeon. He has served as a Senator since 2005, as Deputy Speaker of the Senate between 2011 and 2015 and since 2019, and between 2015 and 2019 as Marshal of the ...

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Events

*1 January -

Ełk riots The Islamophobia in Poland, anti-Muslim Ełk riots occurred on 1 January 2017 in the town of Ełk, Poland, after 21-year-old Daniel Rudnicki stole two Coke bottles from a local kebab eatery and was murdered by the establishment's cook (a Tunisia, ...

took place at Ełk

Kebab Kebab (, ; ar, كباب, link=no, Latn, ar, kabāb, ; tr, kebap, link=no, ) or kabob (North American) is a type of cooked meat dish that originates from cuisines of the Middle East. Many variants of the category are popular around the wor ...

restaurant.Died by the kebab knife

NRC Handelsblad ''NRC'', previously called ''NRC Handelsblad'' (), is a daily morning newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. It is generally accepted as a newspaper of record in the Netherlands. History ''NRC Handelsblad'' was first published on 1 ...

, 29 December 2017, Roeland Termote & Pieter van OsZawadzka, Anna. "Drinking vodka with anti-Semites. A case study of ‘Polish-Jewish relations’ today." Adeptus 11 (2018): 1-23.
/ref>Tunisian charged over Poland stabbing that sparked riot
BBC, 2 January 2017 *12 January – 3,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Poland as part of

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...

Operation Atlantic Resolve Operation Atlantic Resolve, though not a "named" operation, refers to military activities in response to Russian operations in Ukraine; mainly the War in Donbass. It was funded under the European Deterrence Initiative. In the wake of Russia's 201 ...

. *7 October – "Rosary to the Borders": hundreds of thousands of Polish

Catholics The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

prayed the

Rosary The Rosary (; la, , in the sense of "crown of roses" or "garland of roses"), also known as the Dominican Rosary, or simply the Rosary, refers to a set of prayers used primarily in the Catholic Church, and to the physical string of knots or b ...

along the country's borders for peace and for the salvation of Poland and the world against

secularization In sociology, secularization (or secularisation) is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious values and secular institutions. The ''secularization thesis'' expresses the ...

. *November - 100,000 people gather for annual independence day march

Deaths

*1 January –

Bogdan Tuszyński Bogdan Romuald Tuszyński (4 July 1932 – 1 January 2017) was a Polish sports journalist, reporter and historian. He was best known for his sports report ''Studio S-13'' of the Polskie Radio, beginning in 1970. Born in Łódź, he began his ...

, sports journalist, reporter and historian (b. 1932). *7 January –

Jerzy Kossela Jerzy Kossela (né Kosela; 15 July 1942 – 7 January 2017) was a Polish guitarist, vocalist and founding member of the bands Electron, Niebiesko-Czarni, Pięciolinie and Czerwone Gitary. He was the first founding member of the band Czerwone Git ...

, guitarist and vocalist (b. 1942). *7 January –

Lech Trzeciakowski Lech Trzeciakowski (24 December 1931 – 7 January 2017) was a Polish historian who served as director of the Western Institute (''Instytut Zachodni'') in Poznań from 1974 to 1978. Born in Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta i ...

, historian (b. 1931). *27 April – Jan Flinik, field hockey player (b. 1932) *16 June –

Mieczysław Kalenik Mieczysław Kalenik (1 January 1933 – 16 June 2017) was a Polish actor. Selected filmography *'' Knights of the Teutonic Order'' (1960) *''The First Day of Freedom'' (1964) *''Stawka większa niż życie'' (television; 1968) *'' Tecumseh'' (197 ...

, actor (b. 1933) *2 August – Wanda Chotomska, children's writer, screenwriter and poet (b. 1929)

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