Events in the year 2010 in Spain.
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]
Notable deaths
- January 14 – Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist.[13]
- February 4 – Manuel Esteba, 68, Spanish film director.
- February 12 – Luis Molowny, 84, Spanish footballer, heart attack.[14]
- March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (born 1920)
- April 6 – Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82, Spanish journalist.[15]
- April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (born 1920)
- April 26 – Alberto Vitoria, 54, Spanish footballer, heart attack.[16]
- April 30 – Jordi Estadella, 61, Spanish voice actor, radio and television personality (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez), after long illness.[17]
- May 4 – Ángel Cristo, 65, Spanish animal tamer and circus promoter, cardiac arrest.[18]
- May 12 – Antonio Ozores, 81, Spanish actor, cancer.[19]
- May 15 – Juan José Carbó, 83, Spanish cartoonist.[20]
- June 7 – José Albi, 88, Spanish poet.[21]
- July 2 – Félix Pons, 68, Spanish politician, President of the Congress of Deputies (1986–1996), cancer.[22]
- July 6 – José Rico Pérez, 92, Spanish businessman, President of Hércules CF.[23]
- July 10 – Aldo Sambrell, 79, Spanish actor, stroke.[24]
- July 14 – Eduardo Sánchez Junco, 67, Spanish businessman, founder and owner of Hello!.[25]
- August 9 – Juan Marichal, 88, Spanish historian.[26]
- August 9 – Fernando Fernández, 70, Spanish illustrator and comic artist, after long illness.[27]
- August 17 – Alejandro Maclean, 41, Spanish television, film producer and aerobatics pilot, plane crash.[28]
- August 18 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (born 1930)
- August 23 – Carlos Mendo, 77, Spanish journalist, founder of El País newspaper, after long illness.[29]
- August 26 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (born 1918)
- September 7 – Wilebaldo Solano, 94, Spanish communist activist during the Spanish Civil War.[30]
- September 7 – Joaquín Soler Serrano, 91, Spanish journalist, Alzheimer's disease.[31]
- September 15 – Raúl Trapero, 47, Spanish Olympic boxer, traffic accident.[32]
- September 19 – José Antonio Labordeta, 75, Spanish songwriter, professor, writer, presenter and politician.[33]
- October 4 – Gregorio Ros, 58, Spanish make-up artist, complications from a degenerative disease.[34]
