2010 in Sweden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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).[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]
References
- ↑ "Bo Holmberg har avlidit". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 12 February 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ↑ "Björn von der Esch har avlidit". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). 10 March 2010. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ↑ "Walter Aronson". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ↑ "Swedish champion boxer Anders Eklund dead at 52". USA Today. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ↑ "Outspoken author Kerstin Thorvall dies". thelocal.se. 10 April 2010. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ↑ "Organisten Bo Hansson avliden". svt.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
 | This year in Sweden article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |