2010 in Denmark
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Events from the year 2010 in Denmark.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – Margrethe II[1]
- Prime minister – Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 1 January – A Somali man is charged with trying to kill Kurt Westergaard, whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed has sparked riots around the world.[2]
February
[edit]- 5 February – Danish special forces storm a ship captured by armed Somali pirates and free the 25 crew on board.[3]
- 13 February – Three people die and others are seriously injured after a Danish bus en route from Berlin to Munich hits a barrier and flips over on the Bundesautobahn 9 near Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. The Autobahn is closed in both directions.[4]
March
[edit]- 19 March – For the second year in a row Denmark is revealed as the most wasteful nation in the European Union.[5]
- 29 March – Ministers from the Arctic countries – Russia, Denmark, Norway, Canada and the United States – meet in Chelsea, Quebec, to form a working cooperation over the North Pole region.[6]
April
[edit]- 15 April – The Foreign Ministry decides to shut its embassies in Jordan, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Nicaragua, as well as the general consulate in Hong Kong.[7]
May
[edit]- 3 May – Nearly ten years after its opening, the 50 millionth vehicle roars over the Øresund Bridge.[8]
- 4 May – The army announces that 11 Danish soldiers were wounded when their patrol base in Afghanistan came under attack. Two local interpreters were also injured in the incident.[9]
- 9 May – Danish chef Rasmus Kofoed wins Bocuse d'Or.[10]
- 28 May – Denmark gets a fourth place in Eurovision 2010 in Oslo, Norway.[11]
June
[edit]- 16 June – Sweden agrees to fund study looking into whether a bridge between Helsingør and Helsingborg would be viable.[12]
- 22 June – Parliament overwhelmingly approves the establishment of Anholt Offshore Wind Park, which will supply some 400,000 homes with green energy.[13]
- 25 June – According to the Indonesian authorities, Sonata planned to bomb the Danish embassy in revenge for allowing the Mohammed cartoons to be printed in 2005.[14]
- 25 June – Denmark loses to Japan in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[15]
- 29 June – Denmark has the highest prices for food and non-alcoholic drinks in the European Union, according to the latest survey from Eurostat.[16]
- 30 June – Despite lowering its tax to GDP ratio over the past few years, Denmark still has the EU's highest rate.[17]
July
[edit]- 13 July – A major European survey reveals that Danish employees are least likely to shirk work.[18]
August
[edit]- 9 August – Over three million visitors have seen the Little Mermaid statue at Expo 2010, in Shanghai, China.[19]
- 12 August – Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen for the first time puts a date on when Danish troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan: 2015.[20]
- 31 August – The Danish-based Kurdish TV station Roj TV faces terror charges for supporting PKK.[21]
September
[edit]- 3 September – By an overwhelming majority of 45 votes to 3 at the Copenhagen City Council, the construction of a new mosque is pre-approved as part of a new local plan for the city's Amager district.[22]
- 10 September – A man is arrested in connection with a bomb at a hotel in Copenhagen.[23] See Hotel Jørgensen explosion
October
[edit]- 1 October – About 200 protesters gather outside the Danish Embassy in Paris to demonstrate against what they call 'a massacre' of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands.[24]
- 30 October – Danish People's Party proposes a ban on parabolic antennas in public housing.[25]
November
[edit]- 15 November – The 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is exhumed in Prague to clarify the cause of his death, after previous tests showed high levels of mercury in his hair.[26]
December
[edit]- 29 December – A terrorist plot "to attack Jyllands-Posten and kill an unknown number of people" fails when the accused are arrested.[27]
Undated
[edit]The arts
[edit]Architecture
[edit]- 26 February – Lene Tranberg is elected to honorary fellowship (Hon. FAIA) by the American Institute of Architects.[29][30]
- 5 November – Bjarke Ingels receives the first ever European Prize for Architecture at a gala dinner in Madrid.[31]
Film
[edit]- 20 October – Thomas Vinterberg's film Submarino wins the 2010 Nordic Council Film Prize.[32]
Literature
[edit]- Bjørn Lomborg - Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Comparing Costs and Benefits, Cambridge University Press, November 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-76342-4.[33]
Music
[edit]Sports
[edit]Badminton
[edit]- 9–14 March – Tine Rasmussen wins gold in Women's Single and Lars Paaske and Jonas Rasmussen win gold in Men's Double at the 2010 All England Super Series.
- 14–18 April – With four gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 22nd European Badminton Championships in Manchester, England.
- 7 November – Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen win gold in men's double at the 2010 French Super Series.
- 23–28 August Denmark wins two bronze medals at the 2010 BWF World Championships.
Cycling
[edit]- 9 February – Michael Mørkøv (DEN) and Alex Rasmussen (DEN) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race for the second year in a row.
- 24 March – Matti Breschel wins Dwars door Vlaanderen.[34]
- 24–28 March – 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships talks place in Ballerup Super Arena in Copenhagen
- 25 March – Alex Rasmussen wins gold in men's scratch at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
- 3 October – Matti Breschel wins silver in men's road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Australia.
Football
[edit]- 13 May – FC Nordsjælland wins the 2009–10 Danish Cup by defeating FC Midtjylland 2–0 in the final.
- 11 June – 11 July – Denmark participates in the FIFA World Cup, but does not make it beyond the group stage after only finishing third in Group E.
Equestrian sports
[edit]- 23 September Denmark wins three silver medals and three bronze medals at the 2010 FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky.
Swimming
[edit]- 4–15 August – Denmark wins two gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships.
Tennis
[edit]- 1–11 October – Caroline Wozniacki wins China Open.
Other
[edit]- 24 April – Boxer Mikkel Kessler takes the WBC super-middleweight title from defending champion Carl Froch in an installment of the Super-Six tournament.[35] The match is subsequently deemed "a classic" and "one of the best matches in Danish boxing ever" by the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.[36]
- 13 June – In golf, Thomas Bjørn wins the Portuguese Open on the European Tour.
- 5 September – Denmark wins the Team Speedway Junior World Championship final at Rye House Stadium in Hoddesdon, England.
Deaths
[edit]- 6 January – Jakob Nørhøj, Socialist People's Party politician (b. 1976)
- 11 January – Asger Stig Møller, author (b. 1965)
- 12 February – Grethe Sønck, actress and singer (born 1929)
- 15 February – Rigmor Mydtskov, photographer (b. 1925)
- 17 February – Aksel Erhardsen (b. 1927)
- 4 March – Etta Cameron, singer (b. 1939)
- 3 June – Lars Kjeldgaard, author (b. 1956)
- 20 August – Gyda Hansen, actress (b. 1938)
- 9 September – Bent Larsen, chess Grandmaster (b. 1935)
- 13 October – Ulrik Cold, opera singer (b. 1939)
- 19 November – Tobias Faber, architect (b. 1915)
- 26 November – Palle Huld, actor and writer (born 1912), inspiration behind the tales of Tintin
- 2 December – Kirsten Jacobsen, politician (b. 1942)[37]
- 31 December – Tove Maës, actress (born 1921)
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "Somali charged over attack on Danish cartoonist". BBC News. 2 January 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Danish Forces Storm Somali Pirate Ship, Free 25 People on Board". Fox News Channel. 5 February 2010. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Three die in German motorway crash". RTÉ News. 13 February 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Denmark retains Euro trash title". Copenhagen Post. 19 March 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Denmark to fight for North Pole rights". Copenhagen Post. 29 March 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Denmark closes 4 embassies". Copenhagen Post. 15 April 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "50 million over Øresund Bridge". Copenhagen Post. 3 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "11 Danish soldiers wounded". Copenhagen Post. 5 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "'Unemployed' chef named Europe's best". Copenhagen Post. 28 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Eurovision relief for Denmark". Copenhagen Post. 28 May 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Second Øresund Bridge study announced". Copenhagen Post. 16 June 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Nation's largest wind park gets green light". Copenhagen Post. 22 June 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "PET reacts to Indonesian terror threat". Copenhagen Post. 25 June 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "The party's over: Japan 3, Denmark 1". Copenhagen Post. 25 June 2010. Archived from the original on 28 June 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Danish food prices the highest in EU". Copenhagen Post. 29 June 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010. [permanent dead link]
- ^ "Danish taxes EU's highest in 2008". Copenhagen Post. 30 June 2010. Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "There is nothing like a Dane". Copenhagen Post. 13 July 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Little Mermaid spends 97th birthday in Shanghai". China Daily. 23 August 2010. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Troops to leave Afghanistan by 2015". Copenhagen Post. 12 August 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "TV station faces terror charges". Copenhagen Post. 1 September 2010. Archived from the original on 4 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Mosque approved for city's Amager district". Copenhagen Post. 3 September 2010. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ^ "Man pleads not guilty to Danish hotel blast charges". BBC. 11 September 2010. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
- ^ "Dolphin 'massacre' protested". Copenhagen Post. 1 October 2010. Archived from the original on 13 October 2010. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ^ "Pia Kjærsgaard vil forbyde paraboler i Vollsmose". Politiken. Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
- ^ "Danish astronomer's body exhumed to solve mystery". 15 November 2010. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
- ^ Anderson, Christina; Goodman, J. David (30 December 2010). "Terror Suspects Appear in Danish Court". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ^ "Formfuldendte apps fra Shape - interview med Christian Risom - Trendsonline.dk". 2 May 2011.
- ^ "New honorary fellows within aiaeurope.org". AIA. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Lene Tranberg, Hon. FAIA". AIA. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Bjarke Ingels to Receive the European Prize for Architecture". Bustler. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "Vinterberg wins Nordic Film Prize". Politiken. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ Jowit, Juliette (30 August 2010). "Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "Breschel calls Quick Step's bluff, solos to victory". cyclingnews. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ "Mikkel Kessler Out-Points Carl Froch in Classic War!". East Side Boxing. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ "Mikkel Kessler vandt en klassiker – Ekstra Bladet".
- ^ Rasmussen, Hanne; Brandt, Ulrik (7 May 2020). "Kirsten Jacobsen (politiker)" [Kirsten Jacobsen (politician)]. Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (in Danish). Retrieved 27 February 2022.
