2031

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.^[1][2][3]
• January – The 2031 World Men's Handball Championship will be held in Denmark, Iceland and Norway.^[4][5]
• March 31 – The 2030 World Expo will be closed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.^[6][7]
• April 5 – Comet Bernardinelli–Bernstein will make its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 10.1 astronomical units.^[8][9][10]
• May 1: 100th anniversary of the Empire State Building.
• June – VERITAS, a mission by NASA to map the surface of Venus, will be launched.^[11][12]
• July – The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will reach Jupiter.^{[13][14][15][16]}
• August 29th - September 14th - The 2031 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be held in France.

• September–October – The 2031 Rugby World Cup will be held in the United States.^[17][18][19]
• October–November – The 2031 Cricket World Cup will be held in India.^[20][21]
• 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.^[22][23]

Date unknown

• 2 World Trade Center (aka 200 Greenwich Street) gets finished.^[24]
• The XXII Pan American Games will be held.^[25]
• The 2031 Women's World Cup will be held in the United States, Mexico, and other CONCACAF members.^[26][27]
• The 2031 AFC Asian Cup will be held.^[28][29][30]
• 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.^[31][32][33]
• Formula 1 is targeting the return of V8 engines by approval from engine manufacturers by 2031 or as early as 2030.

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