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| 1931 |
| | | Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria | |
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| 1931 |
| | | 16-year-old English footballer Stanley Matthews plays his first League game for Stoke City | |
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| 1931 |
| | | In Pietr-Le-Letton, the first novel published under his own name, the Belgian writer Georges Simenon introduces Inspector Maigret | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The trilogy Mourning becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's transposition to New England of the Oresteia story, is performed in New York | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Pay cuts cause British sailors in the Atlantic fleet to mutiny at Invergordon, in Scotland's Cromarty Firth | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The George Washington Bridge links New York with New Jersey, and is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 3500 feet (1066m) | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg's Group Theatre present their first professional production, The House of Connelly by Paul Green | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli introduces a successful new line for women in the form of the padded shoulder | |
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| 1931 |
| | | In his painting The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali provides the disturbing image of watches drooping from the edge of flat surfaces | |
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