2010 in Sweden

Events from the year 2010 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt

Events

• 8,9 June 2010 Rinkeby riots, first significant rioting in an immigrant neighborhood
• 19 September – 2010 Swedish general election was held, it saw the Nationalist Sweden Democrats entering parliament for the first time, as the sixth largest and only non-aligned of the eight parties elected to the parliament, by receiving 5.70 percent of the votes (an increase by 2.77 pp) and 20 seats.

Deaths

• 10 January – Ulf Olsson, convicted murderer (born 1951)
• 11 February – Bo Holmberg, governor (born 1942).
• 2 March – Emil Forselius, actor (born 1974)
• 10 March – Björn von der Esch, politician (born 1930).
• 11 March – Walter Aronson, bobsledder (born 1917).
• 1 April – Anders Eklund, boxer (b. 1957).
• 9 April – Kerstin Thorvall, author, illustrator and journalist (b. 1925).
• 24 April – Bo Hansson, keyboardist (b. 1943).

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