Calendar 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.
Calendar year
Predicted and scheduled events [ edit ]
August 1 : 50th anniversary of the cable television channel MTV .
^ "Ocean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Station" . October 9, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ "The end of an era" . October 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ "NASA plans to take International Space Station out of orbit in January 2031 by crashing it into 'spacecraft cemetery' " . Sky News . 1 February 2022. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2022 .
^ "IHF Council Awards 2029 and 2031 Editions of the IHF World Championship" . IHF. 16 April 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2025 .
^ "Fer hluti HM karla 2029 eða 2031 fram hér á landi?" . Handbolti.is (in Icelandic). 5 July 2023.
^ "Saudi capital Riyadh enters race to host 2030 World Expo" . Saudi Gazette.com . 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2021-10-29 .
^ "Saudi capital Riyadh to host World Expo 2030" . Arab News . 28 November 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2025 .
^ "Giant comet found hidden in dark energy data" . July 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021 .
^ "After 3.5 million-year hiatus, the largest comet ever discovered is headed our way" . Space.com . October 3, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2025 .
^ "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein)" (2022-02-13 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 14 February 2022 .
^ "VERITAS Venus mission seeks to avoid further delays" . SpaceNews . 27 November 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ "VERITAS, NASA's Venus mapper" . Retrieved January 2, 2025 .
^ "JUICE: Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer" . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov . Retrieved March 6, 2025 .
^ "Juice spacecraft to fly-by Earth and Moon in 'world first' " . August 19, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ "Juice's journey and Jupiter system tour" . ESA . 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022 .
^ "JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE)" . NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive . NASA. 28 October 2021. Archived from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021 .
^ "Cities descend on Washington DC as interest in Rugby World Cup 2031 and 2033 ramps up" . July 12, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ "Rugby World Cup host locations confirmed through to 2033" . May 12, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ Morgan, Amy (May 12, 2022). "The U.S. is named a Rugby World Cup host" . NPR . Archived from the original on June 7, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 .
^ "Upcoming ICC Tournament Fixtures and Schedule - From 2025 to 2031" . June 24, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2025 .
^ "USA to stage T20 World Cup: 2024–2031 ICC Men's tournament hosts confirmed" . 16 November 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2025 .
^ "Europe will join the space party at Planet Venus" . BBC News. June 10, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ Foust, Jeff (27 November 2024). "VERITAS Venus mission seeks to avoid further delays" . SpaceNews . Retrieved 28 November 2024 . EnVision was still planning a launch in December 2031. ESA recently changed the launch vehicle for the mission from an Ariane 62 to an Ariane 64.
^ "Paraguay Bids To Host The 2030 Youth Olympic Games And 2031 Pan American Games" . December 29, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ "Netflix signs US broadcast deal with FIFA for the Women's World Cup in 2027 and 2031" . Associated Press . December 20, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ "Japan eye 2031 women's soccer World Cup" . October 25, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2025 .
^ "Race for 2031 Asian Cup heats up as South Korea express interest" . Reuters.
^ "Indonesia Proposes To Host The 2031 Asian Cup Singles" . VOI . 11 December 2024. Retrieved 11 December 2024 .
^ "Australia interested in 2031 Asian Cup, Central Asian nations launch joint bid" . Reuters.
^ "Kazakhstan to change from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet" . Deutsche Welle. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2025 .
^ "Switching to Latin alphabet further opens Kazakhstan to the world" . Astana Times . 13 March 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2025 .
^ "Kazakh President Orders Shift Away From Cyrillic Alphabet" . Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty . April 12, 2017. Archived from the original on July 6, 2017. Retrieved October 30, 2017 .