- August 16
- A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131 passengers aboard crashes on landing and breaks into three pieces at a Colombian airport on San Andres Island, killing only one person. The plane may have been hit by lightning just before crashing. [105]
- August 17
- A suicide bomber blows himself up at an army recruitment center in Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 57 recruits and soldiers and wounding 123. [35]
- August 21
- Iranian and Russian engineers begin loading uranium fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant, Bushehr. [105]
- August 22
- At the Champion Hong Kong Auction sale in Hong Kong, a possibly unique Chinese 1910 Yunnan Spring dollar graded MS-65 by NGC sells for US$1,0350,000, making it the first Chinese coin to sell for more than US$1 million. [515.10] (graded AU-55 [617.151]) (graded MS-55 [712.161])
- August 24
- US military in Iraq cuts its strength to 50,000 troops. [35]
- August 25
- Coordinated attacks on Iraqi security forces throughout the country kill at least 62 people and wound over 250. [35]
- August 28
- Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province of Indonesia erupts for the first time in 400 years. [105]
- September 3
- A suicide bomber strikes a Shi'ite rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 54 people, wounding about 160. [35]
- New Zealand's South Island is hit by 7.0-magnitude earthquake, 30km west of Christchurch. Damage is relatively minor, with no injuries reported. [105]
- September 9
- In San Bruno, California, a gas pipeline explosion destroys 38 homes, kills at least four people, and leaves a large crater in the ground. [35]
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- September
- Legend Numismatics of New Jersey sells the unique 1943-D Lincoln bronze cent graded MS-64 NGC for US$1.7 million in a private sale, the highest price paid for any cent. [538.1] [568.34]
- September 19
- The oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is finally sealed, after leaking about 4.9 million barrels of oil since April 20. [1563.25]
- September 21
- A helicopter crash kills nine American troops in Afghanistan, making 2010 the deadliest year of the war since 2001 for foreign troops. [35]
- September 23
- Brazil's partially state-owned oil company Petrobras sells US$70 billion in shares in the world's biggest-ever stock offering. [35]
- September 24
- Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut abort a return to Earth when their space capsule fails to separate from the International Space Station. Crew members later rig jumpers to bypass a failed component and succeed in opening the door. [35]
- September 26
- National elections in Venezuela: President Hugo Chavez's Socialist Party wins 98 seats in the National Assembly, with the opposition Democratic Unity bloc (of over 30 parties) taking 65. [35]
- British millionaire businessman owner of Segway, Jimi Heselden, is found dead at age 62 at the bottom of a cliff in a river near Leeds, England with one of the two-wheeled electric scooters near his body. Heselden was also chairman of Hesco Bastion. [35]
- September 28
- Price of an ounce of gold passes US$1300 for the first time, closing at $1306.60 an ounce in New York. [539.46]
- Seven people are reported to have been killed and around 100 are missing after a landslide in Oaxaca, Mexico. [615]
- October 1
- David Johnson is sworn in as the 28th Governor General of Canada. [105]
- October 2
- In Petarukan in Central Java, Indonesia, a train crashes into another parked at a railway station, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens. [105]
- October 10
- Netherlnds Antilles dissolves, creating independent nations Curaçao and Sint Maarten within the kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Caribbean Netherlands. [615] [622.3] [725.8] [1112.2]
- October 13
- Thirty-three miners near Copiapó, Chile, trapped 700 metres underground in a mining accident in San José Mine, are brought back to the surface after surviving for a record 69 days. [615]
- October 22
- The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days). [615]
- October 23
- In preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree to reform the International Monetary Fund and shift 6 percent of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets. [615]
- October 25
- An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leave hundreds missing. [615]
- Venezuelan government expropriates the 200th business of 2010, the Venezuelan subsidiary of Ameican glass-maker Owens-Illinois, alleging exploitation of its dominant market position. [634.44]
- The Singapore Exchange announces it will acquire the Australian Securities Exchange for about US$8.3 billion. [802.78]
- October 27
- (to October 31) The Joburg 2010 stamp show is held in South Africa. Included is a 90-feet wide by 20-feet high stamp mosaic created from 201,000 cancelled South Africa stamps. The mosaic established a new record with the Guiness World Records. [1482.19]
- October 29
- Suicide bomber in town north of Baghdad, Iraq, kills 25. [635.9]
- October 31
- In Iraq, insurgents occupy a church in Baghdad; the churchis stormed by seurity forces, resulting in over 52 dead. [635.9]
- Dilma Rousseff is elected President of Brazil, defeating José Serra of the Party of Brazillian Social Democracy, 56 to 44 percent. [632.45] [635.49]
- November 2
- A series of bomb attacks take place in Iraq; 40 are killed in Baghdad. [635.9]
- November 3
- The US Federal Reserve announces it will start a second round of Quantitative Easing, buying US$600 bilion of Treasury debt over eight months. [632.18] [635.89]
- Valdis Dombrovskis takes office for a second term as Prime Minister of Latvia. [635.67]
- November 4
- Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board. [615]
- November 6
- The government of Myanmar releases opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. [548.4]
- November 7
- The first election in 20 years takes place in Myanmar. [632.52]
- November 9
- Gold hits a record of almost $1425 per ounce, closing at $1421. Silver hits $29.34, and closes at $28.55, the highest since March 17, 1980. [547.4]
- November 11
- The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit. [615]
- The 20,000th defector from North Korea arrives in South Korea. [634.50]
- November 13
- Myanmar opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest in Yangon. She had been locked up since 1989. [615] [634.51]
- November 15
- Guinea holds its first proper election since 1958 independence. Alpha Condé wins the presidential run-off election. [634.56]
- November
- In Germany, Christoph Gaertner sells at auction an 1872 Syke provisional bisection cover of North German Confederation 1-groschen Numeral stamp, finest of 3 known, for 260,000 euros (US$340,000). [613.32]
- November 17
- Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter. [615]
- November 19
- A mining explosion in New Zealand traps 29 miners underground. (A second explosion occurs November 24; all trapped miners are assumed dead.) [632.51]
- Sri Lanka president Mehinda Rajapaksa is inaugurated for a second term. [632.54]
- November 20
- Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issue the Lisbon Summit Declaration. [615]
- November 21
- Eurozone countries agree to a 85 billion euro (US$115 billion) rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country's financial crisis. [615] [632.31]
- Blaise Compaoré is elected President of Burkina Faso. [632.58]
- November 22
- A stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills 347. [615]
- 29 Chinese miners are rescued from a flooded pit in Sichuan province. [632.51]
- November 23
- North Korea shells South Korean island of Yeonpyeong for 65 minutes, killing 4, injuring 18, prompting a military response by South Korea. [615] [632.45]
- November 28
- WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential". [615]
- Ivory Coast run-off presidential election is won by Alassane Ouattara, but President Laurent Gbagbo refuses to leave office. [633.18] [801.60]
- November 29
- The European Union agrees to an 85 billion euro rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fund and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden. [615] [801.87]
- The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it is also the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6). [615] [632.85]
- December 6
- Gold hits record US$1432.50. [567.46]
- December 7
- Silver hits 30-year high of US$30.73. [567.46]
- December 21
- The first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 takes place. [615]
- Year
- Deaths in Mexico related to drug trafficking violence: 15,273. [693.6]
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