2017 in the Czech Republic

Events from the year 2017 in the Czech Republic

2017
in
the Czech Republic

Decades:
See also:Other events of 2017
History of the Czech lands  • Years

Incumbents

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  • 22 January – Green Day themselves are coming back to the Czech Republic along with the new album and classic hits after seven years.[1]
  • 27 January – A Czech court rules in favour of a nursing school that banned a Somali refugee student from wearing a headscarf.[2][3]
  • 6 February – A Prague Fast-Food Restaurant Bans the Burka.[4]
  • 19 August – A famous English singer Robbie Williams performed in the open together with a legendary synthpop duo Erasure.[5]
  • 19 September – A Czech appeals court upholds a lower court ruling that went against the headscarf.[6]
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Sports

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Television

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  • 2 January – First episode of the television series Svět pod hlavou was aired (first of ten episodes).

Deaths

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Miloslav Vlk (1932–2017) in 2012

References

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  1. ^ "Green Day". greenday.com. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Czech court rejects suit over school veil ban". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Czech court dismisses hijab ban complaint against school". AP NEWS. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Prague Fast-Food Restaurant Bans Women Wearing Niqab". www.expats.cz. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Robbie Williams' 20 greatest songs ever, ranked". Smooth. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Czech court upholds ruling against student who accused school of discrimination because of hijab ban". National Post. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  7. ^ "V 93 letech zemřel bývalý politický vězeň a skaut Jiří Navrátil". České Noviny (in Czech). 16 January 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  8. ^ "Head of Confederation of Political Prisoners Naděžda Kavalírová dies at 93". Radio Prague. 21 January 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  9. ^ "Zemřel prof. Jaroslav Vacek, bývalý děkan FF UK". FF UK (in Czech). 24 January 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Ve věku 79 let zemřel volejbalový mistr světa Petr Kop". denik.cz (in Czech). 28 January 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  11. ^ "Za Lubomírem Doleželem". uclk.ff.cuni.cz (in Czech). 10 February 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  12. ^ "Zemřel překladatel a publicista Antonín Přidal". novinky.cz (in Czech). 7 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  13. ^ "Ve věku 87 let zemřela známá folklórní zpěvačka Jarmila Šuláková" (in Czech). iDNES (originally ČTK). 11 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  14. ^ "Zemřel Jiří Lanský". atletika.cz (in Czech). 21 February 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  15. ^ "La légende tchèque du hockey Josef Augusta décède à 70 ans". lesechos.fr (in French). 16 February 2017. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  16. ^ "Zemřel exministr financí Svoboda. Prošel vězením za vytunelování Liberty". idnes.cz (in Czech). 1 March 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  17. ^ "Former Head of Czech Roman Catholic Church Miloslav Vlk Dies at 84". Radio Prague. 18 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  18. ^ "Zemřel spisovatel a publicista Alexandr Kliment, signatář Charty 77". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 22 March 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  19. ^ "Spejbl & Hurvínek Prague theatre head, puppeteer Štáchová dies". Czech News Agency. Prague Daily Monitor. 23 March 2017. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  20. ^ "Czech hit singer Věra Špinarová dies". Radio Prague. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  21. ^ "Zemřela herečka Libuše Havelková, babička z Kouzelné školky". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 6 April 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  22. ^ "Sbohem, šampione. Zemřela hokejová legenda Augustin Bubník". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 18 April 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  23. ^ "Former Czech Republic international Frantisek Rajtoral found dead after 'committing suicide'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  24. ^ "Navždy odešel František Brůna". denik.cz (in Czech). 25 April 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  25. ^ "Smutná zpráva". CzechSkating.org (in Czech). 28 April 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  26. ^ "Další fotbalová tragédie. Bývalý plzeňský stoper Bystroň se oběsil". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  27. ^ Tilden, Imogen (1 June 2017). "Czech conductor and former BBCSO chief Jiří Bělohlávek dies aged 71". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  28. ^ "Zemřel Jaroslav Kořán, první polistopadový primátor Prahy". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 2 June 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  29. ^ "Czech sculptor Olbram Zoubek dies at age 91". AP. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  30. ^ "Former Czech education minister Eduard Zeman dies". Prague Daily Monitor. 27 June 2017. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  31. ^ "V 71 letech zemřela sopranistka Eva Děpoltová". novinky.cz (in Czech). 17 July 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  32. ^ "Ve věku 89 let zemřel výtvarník Karel Franta". denik.cz (in Czech). 20 July 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  33. ^ "Zemřel bývalý hokejový reprezentant Ševčík". České Noviny (in Czech). 22 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  34. ^ "Ve věku 76 let zemřela skladatelka Ivana Loudová". novinky.cz (in Czech). 26 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  35. ^ Bierley, Stephen (20 November 2017). "No one will forget the day it came right for Jana Novotna at Wimbledon". The Guardian.
  36. ^ "Zemřela předsedkyně Českého statistického úřadu Iva Ritschelová, bylo jí 53 let" [The chairwoman of the Czech Statistical Office, Iva Ritschelová, has died at the age of 53]. Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 3 December 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2022.