2010 AD

• January 4 – The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.
• February 12 – 28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
• April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk, Russia.
• April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.
• May 25 – 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 takes place in Oslo, Norway, and is won by German entrant Lena with the song “Satellite“.
• May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.
• June 11 – July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is held in South Africa, and is won by Spain.
• June 19 – Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling Westling are getting married
• August 5 – A mine landslide at the San José Mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert results in 33 miners being trapped 700 meters underground
• August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.
• August 28 – The Bothnia Line railway line in northern Sweden is inaugurated after 11 years of construction
• September 19 – 2010 Swedish general election
• September 19 – In Sweden, elections are held for the Riksdag, the county councils and the municipalities. The incumbent bourgeois government coalition, the Alliance, becomes the largest bloc, but does not get its own majority. The Sweden Democrats are elected for the first time and are given a leading role in Sweden’s Riksdag, which thus for the first time has eight parties.
• December 11 – A suicide bomber blows himself and his car kblows himdelf and his car up in central Stockholm.

2011 AD

• January 15 – The result of the South Sudanese independence referendum, 2011 is in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July.
• May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, was killed on May 2, 2011 during an American military operation in Pakistan.
• July 22 – In Norway, Anders Behring Breivik kills 8 people in a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, then kills 69 at a massacre at a Workers’ Youth League camp on the island of Utøya.
• August 6-11 – The England riots are ongoing.
• October 7 – The Juholt affair: The party leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, Håkan Juholt, is found to have charged too much allowance for his overnight apartment.

2012 AD

• May 22–26 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, and is won by Swedish entrant Loreen with the song “Euphoria“.
• June 8 – UEFA Euro 2012, hosted by Poland and Ukraine, begins in Warsaw, with a match between Poland and Greece, which ends 1-1.
• June 17 – Snap legislative elections are held in Greece, following failure to form a government, to elect all 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament and the New Democracy party, led by Antonis Samaras, comes out as the largest party winning 129 out of 300 seats.
• July 1-3 – Shifang protest
• July 4 – EU:s högsta byggnad, Shard London Bridge, invigs i London i Storbritannien.
• July 27–August 12 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, England, United Kingdom.
• The Eropean Union‘s tallest building, the The Shard London Bridge, is inaugurated in London, United Kingdom.
• September 7 – The Jondal Tunnel is inaugurated in Norway.
• October 25 – the Emporia shopping center is inaugurated in the Hyllie area in Malmö.
• November 6 – 2012 United States presidential election: Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States, defeating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
• December 16 – Delhi gang rape and murder

2013 AD

• February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489–1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth’s atmosphere in over a century. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international
• March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
• April 15 – Boston Marathon bombing: Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others
• April 24 – The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.
• May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 takes place in Malmö, Sweden, and is won by Danish entrant Emmelie de Forest with the song “Only Teardrops“.
• May 19 – The riots in Stockholm riots 2013 starting in Husby start with over 100 cars on fire the first night. Lasts another five nights.
• June 8 – Wedding of  Princess Madeleine and Christopher O’Neill 
• July 1 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
• July 10-28 – UEFA Women’s Euro 2013 takes place in Sweden.
• July 24 – Santiago de Compostela derailment
• September 4-5 – Barack Obama visits Stockholm.

2014 AD

• January 1 – Latvia adopts the euro as its currency and becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone.
• February 7–23 – The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia.[6] Slopestyle events are introduced for the first time.
• February 22 – Revolution of Dignity: The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from office, replacing him with Oleksandr Turchynov,
• February 27 – Russo-Ukrainian War begins
• March 8 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 airliner en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.
• April 12 – War in Donbas begins
• May 6–10 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is won by Austrian entrant Conchita Wurst with the song “Rise Like a Phoenix“.
• May 16 – Second Libyan civil war begins
• June – Western African Ebola virus epidemic
• Princess Leonore makes her debut with her parents at Stockholm Palace on June 6, 2014.
• June 12 – July 13 – FIFA World Cup
• July 8–August 26 – Amid growing tensions between Israel and Hamas following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in July, Israel launches Operation Protective Edge against Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip starting with numerous missile strikes,[40] followed by a ground offensive a week later.[41] In seven weeks of fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed.
• July 28 – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: 100-year anniversary of World War I‘s commencement (Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia). (Flashback Only)
• September 14 – Riksdag, county council and municipal elections in Sweden. The red-greens will be bigger than the Alliance. The Sweden Democrats become the third largest party.
• September 18 – In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom
• September 22 – NASA‘s probe MAVEN enters orbit around Mars  and will study the planet´s atmosphere.
• September 26-December 15 – Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai Yiu-ting announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong’s government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters. Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain.
• October 17 – A submarine hunt for Russian submarines began in the Stockholm archipelago.
• October 19 – Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) makes a very close approach to Mars and is observed via surface rovers and satellites.
• October 31 – A spacecraft of the model SpaceShipTwo crash lands. One person dies.
• November 12
  • The uncrewed Rosetta spacecraft‘s Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P, the first time in history that a spacecraft has landed on such an object.
  • The Atacama Large Millimeter Array shows a protoplanetary disk around the star HL Tauri.
• November 30 – The city motorway Norra länken is inaugurated in Stockholm.
• December 18 – Sundsvall Bridge is inaugurated.
• December 27 – The December December agreement the Löfven I Cabinet and the Alliance is presented, and Stefan Löfven therefore announces that extra elections will not be called in 2015.

2015 AD

• January 7 – Two gunmen belonging to Al-Qaeda‘s Yemen branch kill 12 people and injure 11 more at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, prompting an anti-terrorism demonstration attended by over a million people and more than 40 world leaders.
• January 27 – International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated worldwide, on the day 70 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• February 27 – Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
• March 24 – An Airbus A320-211 operated by Germanwings is deliberately crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
• May 19–23 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is held in Vienna, Austria, and is won by Swedish entrant Måns Zelmerlöw with the song “Heroes“.
• June 13 – Wedding of Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist
• September – European migrant crisis
• October 22 – Four are killed after a knife knife attack at a school in Trollhättan in Sweden. The dead are a student, a student assistant, a teacher (who died on December 4 of the same year) and the perpetrator Anton Lundin Pettersson himself.
• October 31 – Metrojet Flight 9268, an Airbus A321 airliner en route to Saint Petersburg from Sharm el-Sheikh, crashes near Al-Hasana in Sinai, killing all 217 passengers and 7 crew members on board. Later investigations revealed a bomb was likely responsible for the crash with Islamic State being the primary suspect.
• November 13 – Multiple terrorist attacks claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Paris, France, result in 130 fatalities.
• December 8 -The Hallandsås Tunnel is inaugurated.