2010 in Sri Lanka

• Central Province – Tikiri Kobbekaduwa
• Eastern Province – Mohan Wijewickrama
• North Central Province – Karunarathne Diulgane
• Northern Province – G.A. Chandrasiri
• North Western Province – Tissa Balalla
• Sabaragamuwa Province – Janaka Priyantha Bandara until April, Wijesinghe Lokubandara from April
• Southern Province – Kumari Balasuriya
• Uva Province – Nanda Mathew
• Western Province – Alavi Moulana

• Central Province – Sarath Ekanayake
• Eastern Province – S. Chandrakanthan
• North Central Province – Berty Premalal Dissanayake
• Northern Province – Vacant
• North Western Province – Athula Wijesinghe
• Sabaragamuwa Province – Maheepala Herath
• Southern Province – Shan Wijayalal De Silva
• Uva Province – Shashindra Rajapaksa
• Western Province – Prasanna Ranatunge

• 9 January - The Sri Lankan army releases over 700 former Tamil Tiger fighters after a rehabilitation program.[1][2]
• 12 January - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa announces that Tamils will be given greater say in matters of governance, proposing power sharing agreements.[3][4]
• 22 January - The home of an opposition activist is bombed in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo days ahead of the presidential election.[5][6]
• 24 January - Sri Lankan opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka receives the support of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga in the 2010 presidential election.[7]
• 26 January - Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls in a presidential election.[8][9][10]
• 27 January - Incumbent President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa is declared the winner of Sunday's presidential election, defeating opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka.[11]

• February 4 - Sri Lankan Independence

• 14 April - Sinhala and Tamil new year

• 27 May - Buddha's Birthday
• 9 May - Vesak
• 31 May -Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the opening of the fourteenth regular session of the Human Rights Council call Sri Lanka Government to establishing an independent international accountability mechanism to address the serious concerns which had arisen in the last stages of the fighting in 2009

Statement of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at Opening of fourteenth regular session of Human Rights Council http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10076&LangID=E

• Esala Perahera

• 2010 Colombo floods

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• Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness.

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• H. A. Perera, 59, Sri Lankan actor, after short illness.

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• C. I. Gunesekera, 90, Sri Lankan cricketer.

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• Lakshman Jayakody, 80, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Buddhist Affairs (1994–2000), after short illness.