2017 in Argentina

Incumbents

• President: Mauricio Macri
• Vice President: Gabriela Michetti

  Predicted and scheduled events

October

• October 22: Argentine legislative election, 2017

  Unknown month

• Martín Fierro Awards ceremony

  Events

January

• January 1: Celebrations of the New Year's Eve in Villa Gesell end in a police incident, with 15 people detained.
• January 2: The government buys four armed ships to Israel, to patrol the national borders.
• January 4
• * The government proposes to reduce the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 14 years old.
• * The national chamber of criminal affairs reject a request to liberate Milagro Sala.
• * Governor María Eugenia Vidal vetoes a law in the Buenos Aires Province that would have allowed people from below and above the age of consent to attend nightclubs together at cities below 30,000 residents.
• * Minister Carolina Stanley undergoes medical treatment in the lungs.
• January 10: More than 2,000 manteros in the vicinity of the Once railway station are driven away by the police.
• January 11
• * Mauricio Macri announces an investment plan for Vaca Muerta.
• * Leonardo Meirelles, sentenced in the Operation Car Wash, reveals that he had transferred half a million dollars to Gustavo Arribas, head of the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina, in 2013.
• * Former governor Daniel Scioli meets Pope Francis.
• January 14: It became known that the President-elect of the United States Donald Trump praised the role of Argentina in South America.
• January 15: The government proposed to limit the arrival of immigrants with a criminal record.
• January 16: A flood strikes the Santa Fe Province.
• January 19
• * Javier González Fraga is appointed president of the Banco de la Nación Argentina.
• * Bicentennial of the Crossing of the Andes
• January 20: A leaked audio reveals an old phone conversation between then president Cristina Kirchner and the head of the SIDE Oscar Parrilli. In the audio they discuss dummy judicial cases started against the spy Antonio Stiuso.
• January 22: A report announces a recovery in the economy.
• January 27
• * The government halts a raise in wages in the banking system of 20%, which would be above the expected inflation rate.
• * Fire at the San Nicolas Cathedral, in Rosario
• * The government rejects a proposal to keep the Fútbol para todos program for six additional months.
• January 28: 250 foreign fishing ships are detected at the border of the Argentine Sea
• January 30: Jorge Olivera, at large since 2013, is recaptured.

  February

• February 1: Judge Ariel Lijo open the case based on the investigations by the late Alberto Nisman.
• February 2: Retail shops start a new price system.

  March

• March 1: Opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina.

  October

• October 17 - the body of missing activist Santiago Maldonado is found in the Chubut River, two and a half months after his disappearance under suspicious circumstances after Maldonado was allegedly detained by the Gendarmerie during the repression of an indigenous protest Chubut.

  Deaths

• January 9: Politician José María Díaz Bancalari
• January 13: Folk singer Horacio Guarany.
• January 23: Television presenter Julieta Magaña
• April 11: Politician Alberto Balestrini