2031
year
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, works by authors who died in 1960 will enter the public domain in the United Kingdom, the European Union and other life-plus-70 jurisdictions. In the United States, works first published in 1935 are scheduled to enter the public domain under the current 95-year term for published works.
January – NASA is scheduled to begin the final phase of the International Space Station's controlled deorbit, with current planning targeting re-entry in early 2031. NASA's planning calls for an intentional re-entry over the remote South Pacific Ocean, in the vicinity of the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area around Point Nemo.
January 15–February 2 – The 32nd IHF Men's World Championship will be held in Denmark, Iceland and Norway. It will be the fourth men's world championship hosted by Denmark and the second hosted by both Iceland and Norway.
March 31 – Expo 2030 Riyadh will close in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after running for six months from October 1, 2030. The organizers project more than 42 million visits and participation by 197 countries and 29 international organizations.
April 5 – Comet Bernardinelli–Bernstein is expected to make its closest approach to Earth at approximately 10.1 AU (1.5 billion km; 940 million mi).
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as year. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12794. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2031, 1960, 1935 and 2030.
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