* 2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.

In 2010, there were 1. 33 billion journeys on the National Rail network, making the British network the fifth most used in the world ( Great Britain ranks 23rd in world population ).

The future transformation of the British Army is referred to as " Army 2020 ", Army 2020 is the result of the October 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review and the number of following reviews / modifications thereafter.

Initially, the October 2010 SDSR outlined a reduction of the Regular British Army by 7, 000 to a trained strength of 95, 000 personnel by 2015.

* Interview on the British Magazine New Statesman, September 2010

*" Cuba's health diplomacy ", British Broadcasting Corporation, February 25, 2010.

In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of " The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010 ".

* 2010 – Woolly Wolstenholme, British musician ( b. 1947 )

The trial ran on 19 October 2010 with a Class 406 ICE train specially liveried with a British " Union flag " decal.

* Entente frugale, cooperation between the British and French governments, announced in November 2010

the British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in August 2010 to protest the decision to close the Council.

Other notable British Asian films from this period include My Son the Fanatic ( 1997 ), Ae Fond Kiss ... ( 2004 ), Mischief Night ( 2006 ), Yasmin ( 2004 ) and Four Lions ( 2010 ).

* 1916 – John Reed, British actor and singer ( d. 2010 )

* 1923 – Antony Flew, British philosopher ( d. 2010 )

* 1922 – Joyce Howard, British film actress ( d. 2010 )

A British scholar, Samuel Brittan, concluded in 2010, " Hayek's book Constitution of Liberty is still probably the most comprehensive statement of the underlying ideas of the moderate free market philosophy espoused by neoliberals.

Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world ’ s largest remaining oil resources: in 2001, the U. S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland ( north and south of the arctic circle ) could contain up to of oil and, in 2010, the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported " the first firm indications " of commercially viable oil deposits.

" The Anglo-Scottish Treaty of Union, 1707 in 2007: Defending the Revolution, Defeating the Jacobites ," Journal of British Studies, Jan 2010, Vol.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

* 1946 – Malcolm McLaren, British music manager ( d. 2010 )

* 1930 – Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure ( d. 2010 )

James Patrick Hogan ( 27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010 ) was a British science fiction author.

On August 12, 2010, Grammer announced that he was going to be a father for the fifth time with his girlfriend Kayte Walsh, a British flight attendant who is 25 years his junior.

The 2008 – 09 Manchester display, titled " Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery Exhibition at the Manchester Museum ", won the category " Best Archaeological Innovation " in the 2010 British Archaeological Awards, run by the Council for British Archaeology.

She retired from politics at the 2010 general election.

On 31 December 2010 the general FSCS limit for retail deposits was increased to £ 85, 000 for banks and building societies and the transitional arrangements in respect of building society mergers came to an end.

The inquiry was expected to report in late 2009 but was delayed until after the general election on 6 May 2010.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".

The Big Society was the flagship policy idea of the 2010 UK Conservative Party general election manifesto.

* 1916 – Marcel Bigeard, French general ( d. 2010 )

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

A new general manager was appointed in 2010 with a mandate to develop the station to meet future requirements of the community.

Party leader John Gormley called publicly in November 2010 for a general election in the state to be fixed by the latter half of January 2011, allowing time for the Oireachtas to pass legislation for European Union and International Monetary Fund financial support for Ireland ; the date of the election was eventually set for March 2011.

The 2010 general elections saw the victory of a MLP-MSM-PMSD coalition ( known as " L ' Alliance de l ' Avenir ") and the maintaining of Navin Ramgoolam as Prime Minister.

The university introduced a new curriculum in January 2010 that was intended to broaden the knowledge of graduates and to include study in general education subjects.

In 2010, the Mets hired a new general manager, Sandy Alderson, and a new manager, Terry Collins.

When the general election of 2010 produced a hung parliament, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties agreed to form Her Majesty's current coalition government, the first in seventy years.

, Gordon Brown remains a Member of Parliament, retaining his Commons seat in the 2010 general election and choosing to remain a backbencher.

In the general timeframe of 2010 to 2012, stores in the United States have been featuring potato chips labeled on the package as " Kettle Cooked.

In the following May 2010 UK general election, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, launched in January 2010 and backed by Bob Crow, the leader of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers union ( RMT ), other union leaders and the Socialist Party among other socialist groups, stood against Labour in 40 constituencies.

* 1916 – Frederick C. Weyand, American general ( d. 2010 )

An early general election was called on 16 April 2010, and was held on 24 May 2010.

As of 2010 there are 650 constituencies ( there were 646 before that year's general election.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( no single party being able to command a majority in the House of Commons ).