2010 in Denmark

Events from the year 2010 in Denmark.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December 3 Deaths 4 See also 5 References

Incumbents

• Monarch - HM Queen Magrethe II of Denmark
• Prime minister - Lars Løkke Rasmussen

Events

January

• January 1 – A Somali man has been charged with trying to kill Kurt Westergaard whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed sparked riots around the world.^[1]

February

• February 5 – Danish special forces storm a ship captured by armed Somali pirates and free the 25 crew on board.^[2]
• February 13 – Three people died and others were 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.^[3]

March

• March 19 – For the second year in a row Denmark has been revealed as the most wasteful nation in the EU.^[4]
• March 29 – Ministers from the Arctic countries – Russia, Denmark, Norway, Canada and the US – will meet in Chelsea, Quebec to form a working cooperation over the North Pole region.^[5]

April

• April 15 – The Foreign Ministry has decided to shut its embassies in Jordan, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nicaragua as well as the general consulate in Hong Kong.^[6]

May

• May 3 – Nearly 10 years after its opening, the 50 millionth vehicle roared over the Øresund Bridge.^[7]
• May 4 – The army has announced that 11 Danish soldiers were wounded when their patrol base in Afghanistan came under attack. Two local interpreters were also injured in the incident.^[8]
• May 9 – Danish chef Rasmus Kofoed wins Bocuse d'Or.^[9]
• May 28 – Denmark gets a fourth place in Eurovision 2010 in Oslo, Norway.^[10]

June

• June 16 – Sweden agrees to fund study looking into whether a bridge between Helsingør and Helsingborg would be viable.^[11]
• June 22 – Parliament overwhelmingly approved the establishment of Anholt Offshore Wind Park, which will supply some 400,000 homes with green energy.^[12]
• June 25 – According to the Indonesian authorities, Sonata planned to bomb the Danish embassy in revenge for allowing the Mohammed cartoons to be printed in 2005.^[13]
• June 25 – Denmark loses to Japan in the 2010 World Cup.^[14]
• June 29 – Denmark has the highest prices for food and non-alcoholic drinks in the European Union, according to the latest survey from Eurostat.^[15]
• June 30 – Despite lowering its tax to GDP ratio over the past few years, Denmark still has the EU’s highest rate.^[16]

July

• July 13 – Major European survey reveals that Danish employees are least likely to shirk work.^[17]

August

• August 9 – Over three million visitors have see the Little Mermaid statue at Expo 2010, in Shanghai, China.^[18]
• August 12 – Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen has for the first time put a date on when Danish troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan: 2015.^[19]
• August 31 – The Danish-based Kurdish TV station Roj TV faces terror charges for supporting PKK.^[20]

September

• September 3 – By an overwhelming majority of 45 votes to three at the Copenhagen City Council, the construction of a new mosque has been pre-approved as part of a new local plan for the city’s Amager district.^[21]
• September 10 – A man is arrested in connection with a bomb at a hotel in Copenhagen.^[22] _{See Hotel Jørgensen explosion}

October

• October 1 – About 200 protesters gathered outside the Danish Embassy in Paris to demonstrate against what they call ‘a massacre’ of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands.^[23]

• October 30 – Danish People's Party proposes a ban on parabols in public housing.^[24]

November

• November 15 - The 16th Century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is being exhumed in Prague to clarify the cause of his death, after previous tests showed high levels of mercury in his hair.^[25]

December

• December 29 - A terrorist plot "to attack Jyllands-Posten and kill an unknown number of people" failed when the accused were arrested.^[26]

Deaths

• 6 January – Jakob Nørhøj
• 11 January – Asger Stig Møller
• 15 February – Rigmor Mydtskov, photographer (b. 1925)
• 4 March – Etta Cameron, singer (b. 1939)
• 19 November – Tobias Faber, architect (b. 1915)

See also

• 2010

References

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