2010 in Lithuania

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Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 2010 List of years in Lithuania

This article is about the particular significance of the year 2010 to Lithuania and its people.

Incumbents

• President: Dalia Grybauskaitė
• Prime Minister: Andrius Kubilius

Chairmanships

• Community of Democracies

Events

• May 28 – was held Sidabrinė gervė 2010.
• August 8 – wind flaw killed 4 people.^[1]
• August 27 – Gritė Maruškevičiūtė won Miss Lithuania 2010 title.
• October 7 – Lithuania and European Space Agency written cooperation agreement.
• November 27 – Nojus Bartaška reached 6th place for Lithuania in Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Minsk, Belarus.

Sports

• July 1–3 – Alytus held 2010 Lithuania Swimming Championships
• July 9–10 – in S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium was held 2010 Lithuanian Athletics Championships.
• July 22-August 1 – Lithuania held and won U18 European Championship Men 2010 Division A.
• July 27-August 1 – Živilė Balčiūnaitė won gold medal for Lithuania at marathon event in 2010 European Athletics Championships.
• August 14–26 – Lithuania achieved 19th place in 2010 Summer Youth Olympics with 5 medal (3 golden and 2 bronze)
• September 9–19 – Nida held 2010 Lithuanian Sailing Championships.
• September 12 – Lithuanian national basketball team won bronze medal at 2010 FIBA World Championship.
• November 25 – Vytautas Janušaitis won silver medal in 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships.
• November – Vilnius held Lithuania Open darts championship.

• Lithuanian Sportsman of the Year 2010: Simona Krupeckaitė

Deaths

• January 20 - Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish poet.
• January 25 – Algirdas Petrulis, painter.
• January 26 - Eugenijus Karpavičius, illustrator.
• April 8 - Stanislovas Gediminas Ilgūnas, politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
• June 26 - Algirdas Brazauskas, the first President of a newly independent post-Soviet Union Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006.
• July 7 - Vytautas Čekanauskas, architect, professor of the Vilnius Academy of Art.

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