2010 in Spain

Events in the year 2010 in Spain.

• Monarch: Juan Carlos I^[1]
• Prime Minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

• January 1 – Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden.^[2]
• March 7 – Tens of thousands demonstrate against an abortion bill in several Spanish cities.^[3]
• April 12 – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Spain, one of the first large earthquakes to strike the Iberian region in half a century.
• May
  • The Hunter's Sword, Spanish comic is first published.
• 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.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• July 20 – Spain rejects a proposal to ban the burqa in public places; 183 to 162, with two abstaining.^[6]
• July 28 – The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia bans bullfighting, the first region on the mainland to do so.^[7]
• August 19 – Forty people are injured after a bull leaps into a crowd in Tafalla, Spain; the bull is killed.^[8]
• 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.^[9]

• March 14 – Fernando Alonso of Spain wins the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix Formula One race.^[10]
• July 4 – Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the men's singles titles at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships.^[11]
• July 11 – Spain defeats the Netherlands by a score of one goal to nil in extra time of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with Andrés Iniesta scoring the winning goal.^[12]
• Gustaaf Deloor wins the Vuelta a España.

• July 11 – Spanish film-maker Augusti Vila wins the main prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic for his film The Mosquito Net.^[13]

• 2010 in Spanish television

• January 14 – Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist.^[14]
• February 4 – Manuel Esteba, 68, Spanish film director.
• February 12 – Luis Molowny, 84, Spanish footballer, heart attack.^[15]
• March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (born 1920)
• April 6 – Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82, Spanish journalist.^[16]
• April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (born 1920)
• April 26 – Alberto Vitoria, 54, Spanish footballer, heart attack.^[17]
• April 29 – Tolo Calafat, 39, Spanish mountaineer, edema and exposure^[18]
• April 30 – Jordi Estadella, 61, Spanish voice actor, radio and television personality (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez), after long illness.^[19]
• May 4 – Ángel Cristo, 65, Spanish animal tamer and circus promoter, cardiac arrest.^[20]
• May 12 – Antonio Ozores, 81, Spanish actor, cancer.^[21]
• May 15 – Juan José Carbó, 83, Spanish cartoonist.^[22]
• June 7 – José Albi, 88, Spanish poet.^[23]
• July 2 – Félix Pons, 68, Spanish politician, President of the Congress of Deputies (1986–1996), cancer.^[24]
• July 6 – José Rico Pérez, 92, Spanish businessman, President of Hércules CF.^[25]
• July 10 – Aldo Sambrell, 79, Spanish actor, stroke.^[26]
• July 14 – Eduardo Sánchez Junco, 67, Spanish businessman, founder and owner of Hello!.^[27]
• August 9 – Juan Marichal, 88, Spanish historian.^[28]
• August 9 – Fernando Fernández, 70, Spanish illustrator and comic artist, after long illness.^[29]
• August 17 – Alejandro Maclean, 41, Spanish television, film producer and aerobatics pilot, plane crash.^[30]
• 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.^[31]
• August 26 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (born 1918)
• September 7 – Wilebaldo Solano, 94, Spanish communist activist during the Spanish Civil War.^[32]
• September 7 – Joaquín Soler Serrano, 91, Spanish journalist, Alzheimer's disease.^[33]
• September 15 – Raúl Trapero, 47, Spanish Olympic boxer, traffic accident.^[34]
• September 19 – José Antonio Labordeta, 75, Spanish songwriter, professor, writer, presenter and politician.^[35]
• October 4 – Gregorio Ros, 58, Spanish make-up artist, complications from a degenerative disease.^[36]

• List of Spanish films of 2010