2031

2031 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2031 MMXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2784
Armenian calendar	1480 ԹՎ ՌՆՁ
Assyrian calendar	6781
Baháʼí calendar	187–188
Balinese saka calendar	1952–1953
Bengali calendar	1437–1438
Berber calendar	2981
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2575
Burmese calendar	1393
Byzantine calendar	7539–7540
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4728 or 4521     — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4729 or 4522
Coptic calendar	1747–1748
Discordian calendar	3197
Ethiopian calendar	2023–2024
Hebrew calendar	5791–5792
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2087–2088
- Shaka Samvat	1952–1953
- Kali Yuga	5131–5132
Holocene calendar	12031
Igbo calendar	1031–1032
Iranian calendar	1409–1410
Islamic calendar	1452–1453
Japanese calendar	Reiwa 13 (令和１３年)
Javanese calendar	1964–1965
Juche calendar	120
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4364
Minguo calendar	ROC 120 民國120年
Nanakshahi calendar	563
Thai solar calendar	2574
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dog) 2157 or 1776 or 1004     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 2158 or 1777 or 1005
Unix time	1924992000 – 1956527999

2031 (MMXXXI) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2031st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 31st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2030s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• January 1 – Assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, books, films and other works by authors who died in 1960 will enter the public domain in the United Kingdom, the European Union and some other jurisdictions; those published in 1935 will enter the public domain in the United States.
• January – NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station, directing any unbroken remnants into Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean.
• January – The 2031 World Men's Handball Championship will be held in Denmark, Iceland and Norway.
• March 31 – The 2030 World Expo will be closed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• April 5 – Comet Bernardinelli–Bernstein will make its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 10.1 AU (1.5 billion km; 940 million mi).
• May 1: 100th anniversary of the Empire State Building.
• June – VERITAS, a mission by NASA to map the surface of Venus, will be launched.
• July – The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will reach Jupiter.

• August 1: 50th anniversary of the cable television channel MTV.

• September–October – The 2031 Rugby World Cup will be held in the United States.
• October–November – The 2031 Cricket World Cup will be held in India.
• October 29 – Transit of Venus from Uranus.
• December 12 – Virgin of Guadalupe 500 year anniversary
• December 17 – Transit of Earth from Uranus
• December – EnVision, an ESA orbital mission to Venus, will be launched.

Date unknown

• The XXII Pan American Games will be held.
• The 2031 Women's World Cup will be held in the United States, Mexico, and other CONCACAF members.
• The 2031 AFC Asian Cup will be held.
• In Kazakhstan, the switch of the writing script of the Kazakh language from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet is scheduled to be fully implemented by 2031.