2017 in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II

  Events

• 1 January – Kingston upon Hull begins its City of Culture programme with a 10-minute fireworks display over the Marina.
• 2 January – The government announces proposals to build seventeen new towns and villages across the English countryside.
• 3 January – A man is killed in a police shooting during an operation on the M62 near Huddersfield.
• 9 January – Seven year old Katie Rough is fatally asphyxiated and stabbed in the neck near her home in York. A fifteen year old female hands herself in to the police immediately after the killing.
• 14 March – Transgender fell-runner Lauren Jeska is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for the attempted murder of UK Athletics official Ralph Knibbs. Jeska had feared her records and ability to compete in women's events would be investigated due to the unfair advantage she had from being born male.
• 24 November – A sixteen year old girl who admitted killing seven year old Katie Rough in York is detained for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of five years.

  Deaths

• 12 January
• *Anthony King, 82, professor and political scientist.
• *Graham Taylor, 72, football manager.