2010 in Switzerland

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Events in the year 2010 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

Events

6 January: Extreme weather across Europe leads to dozens of deaths, including at least 7 as a result of an avalanche in Switzerland.^[1]
4 February: Switzerland agrees to accept two Chinese Muslim Uyghurs from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.^[2]
25 February: Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi calls for jihad against Switzerland after a referendum last year supported a ban on minarets and other rows between the two nations.^[3]
7 February: Voters in Switzerland take part in a referendum on whether to provide lawyers for non-human animals and other issues.^[4]
19 March: Switzerland ceases to deport asylum seekers in response to the death of a Nigerian man at Zürich Airport as he was being forcefully deported. Nigeria condemns the occurrence.^[5]
10 June: Max Goeldi, the Swiss businessman at the centre of a long-running diplomatic row between Libya and Switzerland, is released from prison in Tripoli.^[6]
14 June: The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland rules that Romanian footballer Adrian Mutu has lost his final appeal in a five-year legal battle meaning he has to pay a record €17 million in damages for breaching his contract.^[7]
12 July: Switzerland rejects a request from the United States to extradite Franco–Polish film director Roman Polanski to face sentencing on charges of unlawful sex with a minor in 1977.^[8]
3–11 December – The 2010 European Curling Championships take place in Champéry.^[9]
5 December: Bank officials attempt to shut down an account opened by Julian Assange in Switzerland.^[10]

Arts and entertainment

63rd Locarno Film Festival

Sports

15 February: 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: Dario Cologna secures Switzerland's first ever Olympic cross-country gold medal and Norway delivers its poorest ever cross-country Olympic performance in the men's 15km freestyle cross-country competition^[11]

Deaths

8 January – Raymond Kamber, 79, Olympic sprint canoer.^[12]
17 February – Roger-Émile Aubry, 86, Swiss-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (1973–1999).^[13]
25 February – Ernst Beyeler, 88, art collector.^[14]
26 February – Charles le Gai Eaton, 89, Swiss-born British diplomat and author.^[15]
27 February – Roger Veeser, 90, Olympic athlete.^[16]
2 April – Roman Bannwart, 90, theologian and musician.^[17]
14 April:
- Erika Burkart, 88, author.^[18]
- Alice Miller, 87, Polish-born Swiss author and psychologist.^[19]
15 April – Peter-Josef Schallberger, 78, farmer and politician.^[20]
16 April – Balthasar Burkhard, 65, photographer.^[21]
15 May – Loris Kessel, 60, racing driver.^[22]
18 May:
- Iskender Alptekin, 48, politician^[23]
- Karin Iten, 53, figure skater.
2 June – Marguerite Narbel, 92, biologist and politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud.
28 June – Nicolas Hayek, 82, entrepreneur, founder and chairman of The Swatch Group.^[24]
8 July – Robert Freitag, 94, Austrian-born Swiss actor.
19 July – Antoinette Meyer, 90, Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) alpine skier.
11 August – Markus Liebherr, 62, businessman, owner of Southampton F.C.^[25]
15 September – Peter Stebler, 83, Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) rower.^[26]
21 September – Bernard Genoud, 68, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (1999–2010).^[27]
5 October – Steve Lee, 47, musician (Gotthard).^[28]
22 October – René Villiger, 79, painter.
25 October – Hans Arnold, 85, Swiss-born Swedish artist.^[29]
31 October – Max Barandun, 68, Olympic sprinter.^[30]
10 November – Georges Aeschlimann, 90, cyclist.^[31]
3 December – Hugues Cuénod, 108, tenor.^[32]
11 December:
- Roger Nicole, 95, Swiss-born American Evangelical Christian theologian.^[33]
- Peter Risi, 60, footballer.^[34]
27 December – Walter Balmer, 62, footballer.^[35]

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2010 in Switzerland

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Incumbents

Events

Arts and entertainment

Sports

Deaths

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