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| 1931 |
| | | The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth | |
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| 1931 |
| | | US gangster Al Capone, never convicted of murder, begins an 8-year-spell in jail for tax evasion | |
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| 1931 |
| | | US actress Bette Davis moves to Hollywood and appears in her first film, The Bad Sister | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | 25 million peasants are moved from the land to provide cheap labour in Stalin's new factories | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia | |
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| 1931 |
| | | US critic Edmund Wilson publishes Axel's Castle, a collection of essays about writers in the symbolist tradition | |
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| 1931 |
| | | US film star James Cagney has a great success in the first of his many gangster roles, in The Public Enemy | |
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| 1931 |
| | | On his first expedition to the Olduvai Gorge, Louis Leakey finds the oldest object now in the British Museum - the chopping tool from about 1.8 million years ago | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Nine black teenagers, known as the Scottsboro Boys, are wrongly convicted of gang rape in a notorious US race-relations case | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Frederick Ashton choreographs Façade for the Camargo Society, using Walton's score | |
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