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| 1930 |
| | | US author John Dos Passos publishes the first novel of his trilogy The 42nd Parallel | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US choreographer Busby Berkeley moves to Hollywood to provide the first of his famous dance spectaculars, in Whoopee | |
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| 1930 |
| | | A spoof history text book, 1066 and all that, is justifiably described by its authors, Walter Sellar and Robert Yeatman, as a Memorable History of England | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The British Broadcasting Corporation forms a Symphony Orchestra with Adrian Boult as the first music director | |
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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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