2010 in Sweden

Events from the year 2010 in Sweden

← 2009 2008 2007 2010 in Sweden → 2011 2012 2013
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2010 Timeline of Swedish history

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

Björn von der Esch, member of the Parliament.

• 10 January – Ulf Olsson, convicted murderer (born 1951)
• 11 February – Bo Holmberg, governor (born 1942).^[1]
• 2 March – Emil Forselius, actor (born 1974)
• 10 March – Björn von der Esch, politician (born 1930).^[2]
• 11 March – Walter Aronson, bobsledder (born 1917).^[3]
• 1 April – Anders Eklund, boxer (b. 1957).^[4]
• 9 April – Kerstin Thorvall, author, illustrator and journalist (b. 1925).^[5]
• 24 April – Bo Hansson, keyboardist (b. 1943).^[6]