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See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Events of 2010 in Italy.

Incumbents

• President: Giorgio Napolitano^[1]
• Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi^[2]

Events

• February 16–20: Sanremo Music Festival 2010, the 60th annual edition held in Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia,
• February 23: unknown persons pour millions of liters of hydrocarbons into the Lambro river causing an environmental disaster that involved the valley of the river itself and the Po, in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna.
• May 1: Pope Benedict XVI will appoint an envoy and a commission to reform Legion of Christ (LC), whose Mexican founder, Marcial Maciel, abused children before being dismissed in 2006.
• September 12: Fernando Alonso wins the Italian Grand Prix. This would be Ferrari's last win at Monza until 2019.

Sports

• 2010–11 Serie A
• 2010–11 Serie B
• 2010–11 Coppa Italia
• 2010 Supercoppa Italiana
• 2010 Giro d'Italia
• 2010 Italian Grand Prix
• 2010 Giro di Lombardia

Deaths

• February 8 – Antonio Giolitti, 94, politician
• April 15 – Raimondo Vianello, 87, television presenter
• May 5 - Giulietta Simionato, 99, operatic mezzo-soprano
• May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, poet and writer
• July 8 – Lelio Luttazzi, 87, composer and television presenter
• August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 82, politician and former President
• September 21 – Sandra Mondaini, 79, actress
• November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, 91, film producer
• November 29 – Mario Monicelli, 95, actor, screenwriter and director
• November 30 – Berardino Libonati, 76, academic, businessman, jurist and lawyer^[3]
• December 18 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, economist and former minister
• December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, 83, footballer and football coach