Editing 1931 (section)

===May===
{{Main|May 1931}}
[[File:Manhattan at Dusk by slonecker.jpg|thumb|188x188px| [[May 1]]: [[Empire State Building]] is completed.]]
* [[May 1]] – Construction of the [[Empire State Building]] is completed in New York City.
* [[May 4]] – [[Kemal Atatürk]] is re-elected president of [[Turkey]].
* [[May 5]] – [[İsmet İnönü]] forms a new government in Turkey (7th government).
* [[May 11]] – The ''[[Creditanstalt]]'', Austria's largest bank, goes bankrupt, beginning the banking collapse in Central Europe that causes a worldwide financial meltdown.
* [[May 13]] – [[Paul Doumer]] is elected president of France.
* [[May 14]] – [[Ådalen shootings]]: Five people are killed in [[Ådalen]], Sweden, when soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
* [[May 15]]
** The Chinese Communists inflict a sharp defeat on the Kuomintang forces.
** [[Pope Pius XI]] issues the [[encyclical]] ''[[Quadragesimo anno]]'', on the "reconstruction of the social order".
* [[May 31]] – The Second Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet ends in the defeat of the Kuomintang.