2010

This article is about the year 2010. For other uses, see 2010 (disambiguation).
Millennium: 3rd millennium
Centuries: 20th century21st century22nd century
Decades: 1980s  1990s  2000s 2010s 2020s  2030s  2040s
Years: 2007 2008 200920102011 2012 2013
2010 by topic:
Arts
ArchitectureComicsFilmHome videoLiterature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – RadioTelevisionVideo gaming
Politics
ElectionsInt'l leadersState leadersSovereign states
Science and technology
ArchaeologyAviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – PalaeontologyRail transportSpaceflight
Sports
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By place
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Other topics
Awards – Law – Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works – Introductions
Works entering the public domain
2010 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar2010
MMX
Ab urbe condita2763
Armenian calendar1459
ԹՎ ՌՆԾԹ
Assyrian calendar6760
Bahá'í calendar166–167
Bengali calendar1417
Berber calendar2960
British Regnal year58 Eliz. 2  59 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2554
Burmese calendar1372
Byzantine calendar7518–7519
Chinese calendar己丑(Earth Ox)
4706 or 4646
     to 
庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4707 or 4647
Coptic calendar1726–1727
Discordian calendar3176
Ethiopian calendar2002–2003
Hebrew calendar5770–5771
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2066–2067
 - Shaka Samvat1932–1933
 - Kali Yuga5111–5112
Holocene calendar12010
Igbo calendar1010–1011
Iranian calendar1388–1389
Islamic calendar1431–1432
Japanese calendarHeisei 22
(平成22年)
Juche calendar99
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4343
Minguo calendarROC 99
民國99年
Thai solar calendar2553
Unix time1262304000–1293839999
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2010 (MMX) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2010th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 10th year of the 3rd millennium, the 10th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2010s decade.

2010 was designated as:

Pronunciation

There is a debate among experts and the general public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "two thousand (and) ten", or "twenty-ten".[1] 2010 was the first year to have a wide variation in pronunciation, as the years 2000 to 2009 were generally pronounced "two thousand (and) one, two, three, etc." as opposed to the less common "twenty-oh-_".

Events

January

January 12: Damaged buildings in Jacmel as a result of the Haiti earthquake

February

March

Volcano plume from Mount Eyjafjallajökull April 17, 2010.

April

May

June

Satellite images of the upper Indus River valley comparing water-levels on 1 August 2009 (top) and 31 July 2010 (bottom) during the flooding in Pakistan

July

August

Luis Urzúa, the leader of the trapped miners and the last of the 33 to be lifted to freedom, celebrates with President Piñera at San José Mine, during "Operación San Lorenzo".
Luis Urzúa, the leader of the trapped miners and the last of the 33 to be lifted to freedom, celebrates with President Piñera at San José Mine during "Operación San Lorenzo".

September

October

November

December

Deaths

Main article: Deaths in 2010

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Nobel Prizes

In fiction

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