Events in the year

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

in Slovakia.

Incumbents

* President – Ivan Gašparovič * Prime Minister – Robert Fico,

Iveta Radičová Iveta Radičová (; born 7 December 1956) served as the first woman prime minister of Slovakia from 2010 to 2012. She led a coalition government, in which she also briefly held the post of Minister of Defence in the last five months of the coalit ...

* Speaker of the National Council –

Pavol Paška Pavol Paška (23 February 1958 – 6 April 2018) was a Slovak politician who served as Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2014. He was a member of the Direction - Social Democracy (Sm ...

, Richard Sulík

Events

*12 June – Parliamentary election *30 August – The

2010 Bratislava shooting The 2010 Bratislava shooting, or the Devínska Nová Ves shooting, occurred on 30 August 2010, when eight people were killed and 17 others injured by a lone gunman who opened fire in Devínska Nová Ves district in a suburb of the Slovak capita ...

*18 September –

Slovak political reform referendum, 2010 A referendum on political reform was held in Slovakia on 18 September 2010, following a successful petition started as a civil activity along with foundation of the radical neo-liberal Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), which later became the third-la ...

Notable deaths

*9 September –

Peter Dzúrik Peter Dzúrik (29 December 1968 – 9 September 2010) was a Slovakia international football defender or defensive midfielder. He played 45 matches and scored two goals for Slovakia. Club career Dzúrik, native of Košice, began playing football ...

, football player (born 1968) *25 September –

Zoltán Pálkovács Zoltán Pálkovács (; ; August 6, 1981 – September 25, 2010) was a Slovak judoka of Hungarian ethnicity. He was born in Rimavská Sobota and died in a traffic accident in Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , ...

, judoka (born 1981).

References

{{Year in Europe, 2010 2010s in Slovakia Slovakia Slovakia Years of the 21st century in Slovakia