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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