Scarfe's year: One snap election, two Oscar-winners and fake news aplenty

Donald Trump is sworn in as President in front of “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period”, according to his spokesman Sean Spicer. “Super-smog” turns the sky over London red. The Red Cross says the NHS is suffering a “humanitarian crisis”. Tristram Hunt quits as an MP to become director of the Victoria & Albert Museum. The Women’s March to Trafalgar Square draws a crowd of 100,000. A petition against Trump’s planned state visit receives 1.8 million signatures. The pound falls ahead of Theresa May’s speech outlining a “hard” Brexit. Jamie Oliver closes six of his 42 Jamie’s Italian restaurants. Power-sharing collapses in Northern Ireland.

MPs back the Government’s EU (Withdrawal) Bill by 498 votes to 114. North Korea fires a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan. Lincoln City become the first non-league club to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals for 103 years. Cressida Dick becomes the first female commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway wrongly announce that La La Land has won the Best Picture Oscar instead of Moonlight. Ian Stuart is found guilty of killing his partner, children’s author Helen Bailey, and dumping her body in a hidden cesspit.

Khalid Masood is shot by police after driving his car through crowds on Westminster Bridge — killing four — and stabbing PC Keith Palmer to death. The new £1 coin is released. Theresa May appears in US Vogue. Professor Robert E Kelly’s children gatecrash his BBC interview about the Korean political situation. The UK Government invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.

The US drops the world’s largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State base in Afghanistan. Edward Enninful is appointed editor of British Vogue. The Ned hotel and members’ club opens in Edwin Lutyens’ former Midland Bank headquarters in the City. Sadiq Khan withdraws funding from the proposed Garden Bridge over the Thames. Arthur Collins injures 16 people by throwing acid into a crowd at Hackney nightclub Mangle E8. Anthony Joshua becomes WBA World Heavyweight Champion. Theresa May calls a snap election.

Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France. Prince Philip announces his retirement from official duties at the age of 96. Donald Trump invents the word “covfefe”. Suicide bomber Salman Abedi kills himself and 22 others at an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band turns 50. Tony Kushner’s eight-hour epic Angels in America opens at the National Theatre. Harry Styles’s solo album goes to No 1 on the Billboard chart. NHS computers are among those targeted in the Wannacry ransomware attack. The deaths are announced of Sir Roger Moore and Moors murderer Ian Brady.

Theresa May fails to win a “strong and stable” majority in the snap general election and must be propped up by Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party. Labour wins Kensington and Chelsea, Battersea, Croydon Central and Enfield Southgate in local elections. Jeremy Corbyn draws a huge, chanting crowd at the Glastonbury Festival. Three terrorists killed seven people at London Bridge. One man is killed and eight people are injured when a van ploughs into worshippers outside Finsbury Park Mosque. Terror attacks in Iran leave 17 dead. Grenfell Tower burns down: the official death toll is eventually 71. Donald Trump announces the US will withdraw from the Paris climate- change agreement. Grayson Perry’s The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! opens at the Serpentine Gallery. London enjoys a heatwave. Over 80 accounts are hacked in a cyberattack on Parliament. The world loses Helmut Kohl, Anita Pallenberg, Adam West and Michael Bond.

Islamic State is defeated in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Chris Froome wins his fourth Tour de France. Lewis Hamilton wins his fifth British Grand Prix. Roger Federer wins a record eighth Wimbledon men’s singles title. Baby Charlie Gard dies after his medical care is withdrawn following a long legal battle. Crime in England and Wales sees its largest annual rise in a decade, with violent crime up 18 per cent. The Handmaid’s Tale premieres on Channel 4. The Government bans new diesel and petrol cars from 2040.

Hurricane Harvey causes billions of dollars of damage to the US and is swiftly followed by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee from Myanmar into Bangladesh after attacks by the military. Terrorists use a car and a van to kill and injure pedestrians in Barcelona and Cambrils. Engineering work causes huge disruption at Waterloo. Mo Farah wins the 10,000 metres at the World Athletics Championships in London, a record 10th consecutive distance title. Sprinter Usain Bolt retires. Model Chloe Ayling is freed after allegedly being kidnapped and drugged by a gang who planned to auction her on the dark web. Big Ben stops chiming as repairs start.

The Cassini-Huygens space probe was deliberately crashed into Saturn at the end of its 20-year mission. Donald Trump lashes out at gridiron players who kneel during the national anthem in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign. Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats from Russia. Rapper Skepta’s mum dances on stage after he wins the Mercury Prize. The original supermodels — Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Sherman, Carla Bruni and Helena Christensen — reunite for the Versace show in Milan. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are having a third child. Uber’s licence is revoked in London. Measles is eradicated from the UK. A botched bomb attack by terrorists at Parsons Green injures 30. A 130-tonne fatberg is discovered in a Whitechapel sewer. The Great British Bake Off screens on Channel 4. The new polymer £10 note featuring Jane Austen is released.

Theresa May has a coughing fit and letters fall off the slogan on the wall behind her during her speech to the Tory party conference. President Xi Jinping is written into the Chinese constitution, becoming the country’s most powerful leader since Mao. The Spanish government takes control of Catalonia less than an hour after it declares independence. Melania Trump wears stilettoes to fly out to hurricane-hit Puerto Rico. Stephen Paddock kills 59 people in a mass shooting in Las Vegas. A nine-seat sushi bar, Araki, in Mayfair, is awarded three Michelin stars. Tom Petty is declared dead, then alive, then dead again. Scientists observe the collision of two neutron stars. Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey are accused of sexual assault. Blue Planet II begins on TV. The Office for National Statistics reveals Britain is £490 billion poorer than previously thought. Monarch Airlines collapses. George Sanders’ novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, wins the Man Booker Prize.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest and eventually quits after 37 years in power. Taylor Swift releases a new album, Reputation. A new species of orangutan is discovered in Sumatra. Bosnian Croat commander Slobodan Praljak swallows poison in court when his conviction for war crimes is confirmed. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce their engagement. Michael Fallon resigns as Defence Secretary over unspecified past behaviour but stays on as an MP. Priti Patel resigns as International Development Secretary after holding secret meetings with politicians and businessmen during a family holiday in Israel. The Queen celebrates 70 years of marriage to Prince Philip. Sarah Clark becomes the first female Black Rod in 650 years. Adwoa Aboah appears on the cover of British Vogue. An earthquake on the Iran-Iraq border kills 530. Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sells for a record $450 million at Christie’s in New York. The cigar-shaped rock Oumuamua is recognised as the first interstellar object to pass through the solar system.

Worldwide protests greet Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. All four board members of the Government’s Social Mobility Commission, led by Alan Milburn, quit en masse. Despite various problems about the Irish border, Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker finally reach an agreement that will allow them to begin trade talks. David Davis admits that his department hasn’t carried out assessments on the impact of Brexit after all. The Government is defeated in a vote that would mean Parliament would have no meaningful say on any Brexit deal. The hip hop musical Hamilton opens at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Christine Keeler dies. Joe McFadden beats Debbie McGee and Alexandra Burke to win Strictly Come Dancing. Walt Disney acquires most of 21st Century Fox for around £49 billion.