8,9 June 2010 Rinkeby riots, first significant rioting in an immigrant neighborhood
19 September - 2010 Swedish general election was held, it saw the NationalistSweden Democrats entering parliament for the first time, as the sixth largest and only non-aligned of the eight parties elected to the parliament, by receiving 5.70 percent of the votes (an increase by 2.77 pp) and 20 seats.
Deaths
10 January – Ulf Olsson, convicted murderer (born 1951)