2010 in Spain

2010
in
Spain

Decades:
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See also:Other events of 2010
List of years in Spain

Events in the year 2010 in Spain.

Incumbents

Events

World cup champions celebrate as they pass in front of the Air Force Headquarters in Madrid, July 12
  • January 1 – Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden.[1]
  • March 7 – Tens of thousands demonstrate against an abortion bill in several Spanish cities.[2]
  • April 12 – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Spain, one of the first large earthquakes to strike the Iberian region in half a century.
  • July 10 – Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people, according to organisers, and 56000 demonstrators, according to Spanish protesters-counting specialized company Lynce, demonstrate in central Barcelona demanding greater autonomy for Catalonia within Spain.[3]
  • July 12 – Spain's victorious 2010 FIFA World Cup "campeones" return to Madrid where they are met by millions of people in the streets, the royal family and politicians.[4]
  • July 20 – Spain rejects a proposal to ban the burqa in public places; 183 to 162, with two abstaining.[5]
  • July 28 – The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia bans bullfighting, the first region on the mainland to do so.[6]
  • August 19 – Forty people are injured after a bull leaps into a crowd in Tafalla, Spain; the bull is killed.[7]
  • September 27 – 95 people, including two former mayors and planning chief of Marbella, appear in court in Málaga in one of Spain's biggest corruption trials.[8]

Sport

Film

Television

Notable deaths

See also

References

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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2010-10-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2010-10-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Archived 2010-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-01. Retrieved 2010-10-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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