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| 1917 |
| | | New York responds with enthusiasm when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band performs a new kind of music in Reisenweber's restaurant | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet | |
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| 1917 |
| | | John Ireland's Second Violin Concerto meets with immediate approval | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd adopts the glasses and the straw hat that become his familiar props | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred Owen is invalided home to Britain | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Amedeo Modigliani's first Paris exhibition is immediately closed by the police because it contains paintings of nudes | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Parade brings together Massine (choreography), Satie (music), Cocteau (libretto) and Picasso (sets and costumes) | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Piet Mondrian and other Dutch artists establish the movement known as De Stijl, together with a magazine of the same name | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Eamon de Valera, newly released from prison, is elected to lead Sinn Fein | |
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