2010 in Europe

This is a list of 2010 events that occurred in Europe.

European Union

 * President of the European Commission: José Manuel Barroso
 * President of the Parliament: Jerzy Buzek
 * President of the European Council: Herman Van Rompuy
 * Presidency of the Council of the EU:
 * Spain (January–July)
 * Belgium (July–December)

January

 * January 1: Spain assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden.
 * January 3: Two passenger trains collided in Bilecik, Turkey. One train driver was killed and seven passengers were injured.
 * January 7: 22 people had died in the UK due to a cold snap.
 * January 10: The opposition Social Democrat, Ivo Josipović, won 60.3% of the vote in the second round run-off, beating the mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić.
 * January 11: More than 5,300 residents in the regions of Shkodër and Lezhë were evacuated due to severe flooding in northern Albania.
 * January 25: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.

February

 * February 3: The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
 * February 16: A bus carrying French children on a school trip has overturned in Italy, killing at least three people on board and injuring another 20.
 * February 18: A scattered exchange of gunfire on the line of contact dividing Azerbaijani and the Karabakh Armenian military forces left six people dead and one wounded.
 * February 25: A collision between two trains in Buizingen, Belgium, left 18 people dead and 162 injured.
 * February 26: At least 63 people were killed and one million homes were left without power in western France after cyclone Xynthia crossed Western Europe.

March

 * March 20: 67 people were arrested and several people were injured in Bolton town centre during a clash between members of the English Defence League and Unite Against Fascism.
 * March 24: A set of 16 goods wagons runaway for 8 km from a freight station at Alnabru in Oslo to hit and destroy a quayside warehouse. Three people died, and four were seriously injured.
 * March 29: At least 40 people died after two female suicide bombers struck the Moscow Metro.
 * March 31: A coach crashed into a river after falling from a bridge in a snowstorm in Lanark, Scotland, killing a 17-year-old girl and injuring 44 passengers.

April

 * April 1: A locomotive ran into a stationary passengers tram after its brakes failed during a test ride in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia, killing three people and injuring seriously eight others.
 * April 10: The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, was among 96 killed when their airplane crashed in western Russia.
 * April 12: A passenger train was hit by a landslide and partially derailed near Merano, Italy, killing 9 and injuring 28.
 * April 14: Over 95,000 flights had been cancelled all across Europe because violent eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull.
 * April 25: Austrian candidate for chairmanship, Heinz Fischer, won the presidential election with 79.3% of the valid votes.

May

 * May 5: Up to 500,000 people protested in front of the Greek Parliament amid plans to cut public spending and raise taxes as austerity measures in exchange for a €110 billion bail-out. The protest degenerated in violences between protesters and riot police, resulting in three deaths and dozens of injuries.
 * May 14: Throughout Eastern Europe, 21 people were killed in floods triggered by the Windstorm Yolanda.
 * May 24: Three people were killed and 35 injured when a Honda Civic car collided with a school bus near Keswick, Cumbria.

June

 * June 2: 13 people were killed and 25 injured in a shooting spree in Cumbria, England.
 * June 6: A passenger train collided with boulders that had fallen on the line near Falls of Cruachan, Scotland, derailed and caught fire. Several people were hospitalised and the line was blocked for a week.
 * June 15: Heavy rainfall in southern France caused severe floods in the department of Var, resulting in at least 25 deaths.
 * June 23: A passenger train struck a group of people who were crossing the railway on the level at Platja de Castelldefels station near Barcelona. Twelve people were killed, and fourteen injured.

July

 * July 1: Belgium assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Spain.
 * July 11: A traffic accident, near Inishowen, in Ireland, killed eight people.
 * July 13: Two trains collided at Korzybie, in north Poland, injuring 36 people.
 * July 18: Fourteen people were killed and twelve injured after a bus fell off a cliff in northern Albania, near the city of Durrës.
 * July 23: One person was killed and 42 were injured when an eastbound Glacier Express derailed near Fiesch on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn.
 * July 24: At least 21 people have been killed and 510 more injured in a stampede at the Love Parade dance music festival in the German city of Duisburg.

August

 * August 6: One person died and about 40 were injured in a train derailment in Naples, Italy, on the Circumvesuviana railway.
 * August 17
 * A sewage tanker lorry struck and derailed a passenger train on a level crossing at Little Cornard, England. 21 people were injured.
 * The Intercity-Express from Frankfurt to Paris hit a truck that had slid onto the rail near Lambrecht. The first two carriages derailed and ten people were injured.

September

 * September 19: A woman armed with an automatic weapon has shot dead three people and injured 18 others at a hospital in Germany before being killed by police.
 * September 26: A Polish tourist bus returning from Spain careered into a bridge on a rain-soaked German motorway, killing 13 people.

October

 * October 1: 40 people were injured when a train derailed at Skotterud, Norway.
 * October 4: Nine people died and 122 were injured in flooding from a ruptured red sludge reservoir at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant, Hungary.
 * October 12
 * A bus packed with rush-hour commuters crashed into a train at a level crossing in Ukraine after jumping a red traffic light, killing 45 people and leaving another 9 wounded.
 * At most 3.5 million people attended a series of demonstrations organised by the French Union leaders throughout France.

November

 * November 11: More than 25,000 students protested in Dublin against increased student fees.

December

 * December 10: Former Prime Minister of Croatia, Ivo Sanader, was arrested in Austria over charges of corruption.

Deaths
January February March April May June July August September October November December
 * January 11
 * Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)
 * Eric Rohmer, 89, French film director (b. 1920)
 * January 19 - Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer (b. 1939)
 * January 22 - Jean Simmons, 80, British actress (b. 1929)
 * February 1 - Steingrimur Hermannsson, 81, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
 * February 6 - John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician and composer (b. 1927)
 * February 11 - Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer (b. 1969)
 * February 14 - Dick Francis, 89, British author and jockey (b. 1920)
 * March 3 - Michael Foot, 96, British politician (b. 1913)
 * March 12 - Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1920)
 * March 21 - Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German festival director (b. 1919)
 * March 22
 * James Black, 85, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
 * Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1946)
 * March 27 - Vasily Smyslov, 89, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1921)
 * March 30 - Martin Sandberger, 98, German army officer (b. 1911)
 * April 6 - Corin Redgrave, 70, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
 * April 8 - Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and manager (b. 1946)
 * April 10
 * Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, Polish statesman (b. 1919)
 * Lech Kaczynski, 60, President of Poland (b. 1949)
 * April 16 - Tomas Spidlik, 90, Czech cardinal (b. 1919)
 * April 21 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89, Spanish sports official (b. 1920)
 * April 25 - Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer (b. 1928)
 * April 30 - Paul Mayer, 98, German cardinal (b. 1911)
 * May 2 - Lynn Redgrave, 67, British actress (b. 1943)
 * May 4 - Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
 * May 5 - Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian opera singer (b. 1910)
 * May 8 - Andor Lilienthal, 99, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911)
 * May 15 - Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian footballer (b. 1987)
 * May 17
 * Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer (b. 1925)
 * Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist (b. 1924)
 * May 18 - Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian writer (b. 1930)
 * May 31 - Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-born American sculptor (b. 1911)
 * June 1 - Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933)
 * June 2 - Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian baritone (b. 1916)
 * June 3 - Vladimir Arnold, 72, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
 * June 9 - Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian ballerina (b. 1908)
 * June 10 - Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer (b. 1941)
 * June 14 - Leonid Kizim, 68, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1941)
 * June 16 - Ronald Neame, 99, British cinematographer, producer and director (b. 1911)
 * June 18
 * Marcel Bigeard, 94, French military officer (b. 1916)
 * Jose Saramago, 87, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
 * June 26 - Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, 9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
 * July 2 - Beryl Bainbridge, 76, British novelist (b. 1934)
 * July 5 - Cesare Siepi, 87, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
 * July 17 - Bernard Giraudeau, 63, French actor and film director (b. 1947)
 * July 24 - Alex Higgins, 61, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
 * August 6 - Tony Judt, 62, British historian (b. 1948)
 * August 7 - Bruno Cremer, 80, French actor (b. 1923)
 * August 12 - Guido de Marco, 79, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931)
 * August 16 - Nicola Cabibbo, 75, Italian physicist (b. 1935)
 * August 17 - Francesco Cossiga, 82, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
 * August 18 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, 80, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930)
 * August 26 - Raimon Panikkar, 91, Spanish theologian (b. 1918)
 * August 27 - Anton Geesink, 76, Dutch judoka (b. 1934)
 * August 30 - Alain Corneau, 67, French filmmaker (b. 1943)
 * August 31 - Laurent Fignon, 50, French road bicycle racer (b. 1960)
 * September 9 - Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess grandmaster (b. 1935)
 * September 12 - Claude Chabrol, 80, French film director (b. 1930)
 * September 29 - Georges Charpak, 86, French Nobel physicist (b. 1924)
 * October 4 - Norman Wisdom, 95, British actor and comedian (b. 1915)
 * October 9 - Maurice Allais, 99, French Nobel economist (b. 1911)
 * October 14 - Benoit Mandelbrot, 85, French-American mathematician (b. 1924)
 * October 30 - Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer (b. 1927)
 * November 2 - Rudolf Barshai, 86, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924)
 * November 3 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938)
 * November 5 - Hajo Herrmann, 97, German fighter pilot and lawyer (b. 1913)
 * November 10 - Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
 * November 12 - Henryk Gorecki, 76, Polish composer (b. 1933)
 * November 13 - Luis Garcia Berlanga, 89, Spanish film director (b. 1921)
 * November 17 - Isabelle Caro, 30, French model and actress (b. 1930)
 * November 29
 * Bella Akhmadulina, 73, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937)
 * Mario Monicelli, 95, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1915)
 * December 12 - Tom Walkinshaw, 64, British racing car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
 * December 21 - Enzo Bearzot, 83, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1927)