In the 2010 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 9,883,640 persons, ranking as the eighth most populous state in the country. By 2017, the state's population was estimated at 9,962,311, and the state had become the 10th most populous state.
The state's largest cities, having populations of at least 75,000 based on 2016 estimates, were as follows:
2017 Michigan State Spartans football team - Under head coach Mark Dantonio, the Spartans compiled a 10–3 record, defeated Washington State in the 2017 Holiday Bowl, and were ranked No. 15 in the final AP Poll. The team's statistical leaders included Brian Lewerke with 2,793 passing yards, L. J. Scott with 898 rushing yards, Felton Davis III with 776 receiving yards, and Matt Coghlin with 83 points scored.[4]
June 10 - Aretha Franklin performed a 105-minute set at the Detroit Music Weekend. She was introduced by Sen. Debbie Stabenow and escorted to the stage by Jesse Jackson. Mayor Mike Duggan also came on stage during the set to present Aretha with a key to the city.[12]
June 15 - Bob Seger's music catalog became available for the first time on six streaming services, including Spotify and Apple Music.[13]
December 8 - Big Sean's album Double or Nothing was released and reached No. 6 in the Billboard 200 album chart.
December 15 - Eminem's album Revival was released and reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
December 18 - Detroit hip-hop group, the Insane Clown Posse and their fans, the Juggalos, lost a federal appeal challenging the FBI's 2011 gang designation[14]
January 3 - Gretchen Whitmer, former minority leader of the Michigan Senate, filed paperwork as a candidate in the 2018 election for governor.
January 4 - Ford Motor announced a $700 million investment to improve its Flat Rock, Michigan, plant to build self-driving and electric cars.
January 8 - Fiat Chrysler announced plans to invest $1 billion at its Warren and Toledo Jeep plants.
January 10 - A lawsuit was filed in Grand Rapids against Larry Nassar and Michigan State University by 18 women alleging they were sexually abused by Nassar.
January 13-22 - North American International Auto Show in Detroit
January 16 - A second group of tapes was released purporting to have the voice of Warren Mayor James R. Fouts denigrating black people and older women. Fouts denied the voice was his.
February 6 - Developer Dan Gilbert's Rock Ventures proposed building a soccer stadium and entertainment district on a downtown site slated for construction of a new jail. In exchange for the site, Gilbert would also build a new jail on another site.[15]
February 7 - Betsy DeVos of Michigan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Secretary of Education. The vote in the Senate was evenly split, requiring Vice President Mike Pence to cast the deciding vote.
February 22 - An additional 22 sexual assault charges were filed against Larry Nassar arising out of his Michigan State University Sports Medicine practice.
February 22 - Developer Dan Gilbert proposed construction of Detroit's tallest building, a 52-story structure including 250 rental apartments, on the former site of the Hudson's department store.
February 23 - Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan accused former emergency manager Kevyn Orr of keeping him in the dark with respect to calculations of the city's future pension payments. The discovery required the city to place an additional $50 million into a trust account. Duggan threatened to sue Orr's law firm, Jones Day, over the undisclosed calculations.
February 25 - A record pressing plant operated by Jack White's Third Man Records held its grand opening in Detroit.
February 26 - The Detroit Pistons retired the jersey (No. 22) worn by Rip Hamilton.
March
March 8 - An airplane carrying the Michigan Wolverines basketball team skidded off the runway at Willow Run Airport, crossed a road, and crashed into a ditch. The team went on to win the Big Ten Conference Tournament and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA basketball tournament.
March 22 - Census Bureau estimates for 2016 show that Michigan's fastest growing counties were Kent (+ 6,078), Washtenaw (+ 3,862), and Oakland (+ 3,696). Wayne County's population declined by 7,696 persons.
March 23 - Michigan lost to Oregon in the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA basketball tournament.
March 31 - Wayne County assumed ownership of the former McClouth Steel plant in Trenton for failure to pay taxes.
April 9 - The Detroit Red Wings played their final game at the Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings played at Joe Louis Arena for 38 seasons, winning four Stanley Cup championships.
April 10 - Red Berenson announced his retirement after 33 season's as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines hockey team.
April 21 - Two doctors (Jumana Nagarwala and Fakhruddin Attar) and a third person from a Livonia, Michigan, clinic were charged with violation of a federal genital mutilation law for allegedly performing or facilitating religious ritual on seven-year-old Indian-Muslim girls.[16][17][18]
April 26 - Jim Harbaugh and his wife met with Pope Francis as Harbaugh and the Michigan football team visited Rome.
May 23 - The U.S. Department of Justice sued Fiat Chrysler for selling diesel engines that violate the Clean Air Act.
May 24 - The 2016 Census estimate showed a 0.5% decline in Detroit's population to 672,795, dropping to the 23rd largest city in the United States. Detroit reached a peak population of 1,849,568 in 1950. The 2016 population represented a decline of 63.6% of the city's 1950 level.[20]
June 5 - Three Michigan State football players were dismissed from the football program after being charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a bathroom at a party in January.[21][22]
June 14 - In connection with the Flint water crisis, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette charged five officials with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a Legionnaire's disease patient. The five charged included Nick Lyon, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, the state's top medical executive, Eden Wells, was charged with obstruction of justice.[23]
June 29 - Rock Ventures, owned by Dan Gilbert, proposed a new $520 million jail complex in Detroit.
July 14 - The Michigan Parole Board voted unanimously to parole Richard "White Boy Rick" Wershe Jr. who had been in prison since 1988 for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver.
July 18 - The Detroit Tigers traded J. D. Martinez to the Arizona Diamondbacks for three prospects.
July 21 - The Detroit Red Wings signed Tomáš Tatar to a four-year $21-million contract.
August 9 - Marygrove College in Detroit announced it was terminating its undergraduate program.
August 12 - The Detroit Red Wings announce that they are examining legal remedies to prevent use of a modified team logo by white supremacists at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
August 19 - Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise
August 25 - Volkswagen engineer James Liang was sentenced in federal court in Detroit to 40 months in prison for his role in the diesel emissions cheating scandal.
August 26 - A Michigan State Police trooper tasered an unarmed 15-year-old, Demond Grimes, as he rode an ATV, causing a crash that resulted in Grimes' death.[25] A wrongful death suit followed with Geoffrey Fieger representing Grimes' family.
August 28 - The Detroit Lions signed Matthew Stafford to the richest contract in NFL history, a five-year extension worth $135 million.
September 26-29 - Michigan State Police director Kriste Kibbey Etue came under fire after a Facebook post in which she referred to NFL players kneeling during the national anthem as "ungrateful, anti-American degenerates." Gov. Rick Snyder rejected calls to remove her.
October
October 3 - Ford Motor CEO Jim Hackett announced plans to focus on electric vehicles and to manufacture fewer models.
October 4 - Ferndale mother Rebecca Bredow was jailed for refusing to comply with a court order requiring her to vaccinate her nine-year-old son.
October 9 - Dr. Eden Wells, chief medical officer of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, was charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the Flint water crisis.[27]
October 18 - Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney stated that she was among the sexual abuse victims of Michigan State physician Larry Nassar.
October 18 - The Detroit Pistons played their first game in Little Caesars Arena, marking their return to Detroit after 40 years of playing in Pontiac and Auburn Hills.
October 19 - The Detroit Tigers hired Ron Gardenhire as their new manager.
October 23 - Detroit was named by Lonely Planet as the second best city in the world to visit in 2018.[28]
* Mike Duggan was reelected as Mayor of Detroit. He received more than 71% of the votes cast.
* Andy Schor was elected as Mayor of Lansing. He received 72% of the votes.
November 9 - The University of Michigan Intrafraternity Council suspended all social events at the school's 27 fraternities. The suspension was triggered by allegations of sexual assaults involving fraternity members and hazing incidents.
November 9 - A Marine drill instructor was found guilty in a court martial for mistreating three Muslim recruits, including Raheel Siddiqui of Taylor, Michigan, who died in 2016 after falling down three flights of stairs after being slapped by the drill instructor.
November 10 - Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman joins the group alleging that she was sexually abused by Larry Nassar.
November 18 - The Catholic Church beatified Solanus Casey who co-founded the Capuchin Soup Kitchen in Detroit.[29]
November 20 - A coalition turned in 400,000 signatures to place an initiative on the 2018 ballot to legalize recreational marijuana.
November 21 - The University of Detroit Mercy announced it was reducing tuition by 30% in the fall of 2018, from $41,158 to $28,000 per year.
November 28 - Lt. Gov. Brian Calley announced his candidacy for governor in the 2018 election.
November 30 - Leaders in the House of Representatives, including Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, and Jim Clyburn, called on John Conyers to resign over allegations of sexual harassment.
December 2 - Sander Levin, a Michigan Congressman for 35 years, announced at age 86 that he would not run for reelection in 2018.
December 2 - Four teenagers were shot outside the Detroit Institute of Arts during the city's "Noel Night" celebration.
December 4 - The implosion and demolition of the Pontiac Silverdome began.
December 5 - John Conyers resigned his seat in Congress amid allegations he had sexually abused members of his staff. Conyers had represented Detroit in Congress since first being elected in 1964. His tenure was the sixth longest in congressional history.[30]
December 7 - Ford Motor announced that it would build electric vehicles to Mexico. The company also announced plans to create 850 new jobs in Flat Rock, Michigan, to build autonomous vehicles.
December 8 - Gov. Rick Snyder announced that he would not set a special election to fill John Conyers' vacant seat in Congress until November 2018, leaving the 13th District unrepresented for 11 months.
December 11 - Ole Miss quarterback Shea Patterson announced he would transfer to Michigan.
December 13 - Detroiter Bernard Young was released from prison after 28 years. He had been convicted of molestation based on testimony from a five- and six-year-old who later recanted.[31]
December 14 - William Strampel, dean of the Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine, who had been Larry Nassar's boss, stepped down as dean, citing medical reasons.
March 22 - Francine Hughes, Danville woman who set fire to the bed of her ex-husband in 1977 and the subject of The Burning Bed, at age 69 in Alabama[37]
March 25 - Rich Fisher, anchor at WXYZ and Fox 2 in Detroit for nearly 20 years, at age 67[38]
March 26 - Maurice "Bud" Lezell, portrayed "Mr. Belvedere" in Detroit television commercials in the 1960s and 1970s, at age 95 in Florida[39]