No. They were all right. It will end. In due time.
Of course dad. All the people in this list were absolutely correct...
66–70
Simon bar Giora,
Jewish Essenes The Jewish Essene sect of ascetics saw the Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66–70 in Judea as the final end-time battle which would bring about the arrival of the Messiah. By the authority of Simon, coins were minted declaring the redemption of Israel.
[1][2][3]
365
Hilary of Poitiers The early French bishop announced the end of the world would happen during this year.
[4]:30
375–400
Martin of Tours The French bishop stated that the world would end before 400 AD, writing, "There is no doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. Firmly established already in his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, achieve supreme power."
[5][6]:119
500
Hippolytus of Rome,
Sextus Julius Africanus,
Irenaeus All three predicted Jesus would return in this year with one of the predictions being based on the dimensions of
Noah's ark.
[4]:31
[7]:35
793 Apr 6
Beatus of Liébana The Spanish monk prophesied the second coming of Christ and the end of the world on that day in front of a large crowd of people.
[4]:31
800
Sextus Julius Africanus Sextus Julius Africanus revised the date of Doomsday to the year 800.
[8]:37
799–806
Gregory of Tours The French bishop calculated the End would occur between the years 799 and 806.
[9]:48
848
Thiota Declared that the world would end during this year.
[6]:337
992–995 Various Christians
Good Friday coincided with the
Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times, within 3 years.
[10]:236
1000 Jan 1
Pope Sylvester II The
Millennium Apocalypse at the end of the
Christian Millennium. Various Christian clerics predicted the end of the world on this date, including
Pope Sylvester II. Riots occurred in Europe and pilgrims headed east to
Jerusalem.
[4]:32
[7]:35–36
1033 Various Christians Following the failure of the January 1, 1000 prediction, some theorists proposed that the end would occur 1000 years after Jesus' death, instead of his birth.
[4]:31
[7]:36
[11]
late 1000s Various Christians Leading up to the
Crusades, many people made pilgrimage to
Jerusalem in hope of being saved, for the "dread day of wrath was upon them: men no longer tilled the earth, fearing the end of all things".
[12]
1260
Joachim of Fiore The Italian mystic determined that the
Millennium would begin between the years 1200 and 1260.
[8]:48
1284
Pope Innocent III Pope Innocent III (d. 1216) predicted that the world would end
666 years after the rise of
Islam.
[5]
1290
1335
Joachimites The followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled the end of the world to 1290 and then again to 1335 when his 1260 prophecy failed.
[13]:58
1346–1351 Various Europeans The
black plague spreading across Europe was interpreted by many as the sign of the end of times.
[4]:33
[14]
1370
Jean de Roquetaillade The Antichrist was to come in 1366 and the
Millennium would begin either in 1368 or 1370.
[9]:55
1378
Arnaldus de Villa Nova This
Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was to come during this year.
[13]:62
1504
Sandro Botticelli Believed he was living during the Tribulation, and that the
Millennium would begin in three and a half years from 1500. Wrote into his painting
The Mystical Nativity that the Devil was loose and would soon be chained.
[9]:60
[15]
1524 Feb 1 London astrologers A group of astrologers in
London predicted the world would end by a flood starting in London, based on calculations made the previous June. 20,000 Londoners left their homes and headed for higher ground in anticipation.
[10]:236–237
[16]
1524 Feb 20
Johannes Stöffler A planetary alignment in
Pisces was seen by this astrologer as a sign of the
Millennium.
[10]:236–237
1524–1526
Thomas Müntzer 1525 would mark the beginning of the
Millennium, according to this
Anabaptist. His followers were killed by cannon fire in an uneven battle with government troops. He died under torture and was beheaded.
[7]:36
[17]:48
1528 May 27
Hans Hut Predicted the end would occur on this day.
[9]:67
1528
Johannes Stöffler Revised date from Stöffler after his 1524 prediction failed to come true.
[10]:238
1533 Oct 19
Michael Stifel This mathematician calculated that Judgement Day would begin at 8:00am on this day.
[13]:88
1533
Melchior Hoffman This Anabaptist prophet predicted Christ's Second Coming to take place this year in
Strasbourg. He claimed that 144,000 people would be saved, while the rest of the world would be consumed by fire.
[8]:59
1534 Apr 5
Jan Matthys Predicted that the Apocalypse would take place on this day and only the city of
Münster would be spared.
[6]:338
1555
Pierre d'Ailly Around the year 1400, this French theologian wrote that 6845 years of human history had already passed, and the end of the world would be in the 7000th year.
[13]:72
1585
Michael Servetus In his book
The Restoration of Christianity, the Spanish born reformer claimed that the Devil's reign in this world had started in 325 AD, at the Council of Nicea, and would last for 1260 years, thus ending in 1585.
[18]
1588
Regiomontanus Predicted the end of the world during this year.
[10]:239
1600
Martin Luther Predicted the end of the world would occur no later than 1600.
[9]:66
1624 Feb 1 London astrologers The same astrologers who predicted the deluge of February 1, 1524 recalculated the date to February 1, 1624 after their first prophecy failed.
[10]:236–237
[16]
1648
Sabbatai Zevi Using the
kabbalah, this rabbi from
Smyrna,
Turkey, proclaimed that the
Messiah would come during that year.
[10]:239
1651 unknown author from
Lübeck,
Germany The apocalypse maps tell of an Antichrist, the rise of Islam and other events following Judgement Day that was predicted to occur in 1651.
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1654
Helisaeus Roeslin This physician made a prediction that the world would end this year based on a
nova that occurred in 1572.
[10]:240
1656
Christopher Columbus In his
Book of Prophecies (1501), Columbus predicted that the world would end during this year.
[24][25]
1657
Fifth Monarchists This group of radical Christians predicted that the final apocalyptic battle and the destruction of the Antichrist were to take place between 1655 and 1657.
[8]:67
1658
Christopher Columbus Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BC, and would last 7000 years. Assuming no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658.
[13]:77
1660
Joseph Mede Mede claimed that the Antichrist had appeared in 456, and the end would come in 1660.
[13]:147
1666
Sabbatai Zevi Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth for this year.
[10]:239
Fifth Monarchists The presence of
666 in the date, the death of 100,000
Londoners to
bubonic plague, and the
Great Fire of London led to superstitious fears of the end of the world from some Christians.
[7]:36–37
[26]:87
1673
William Aspinwall This
Fifth Monarchist claimed the
Millennium would begin by this year.
[6]:209
1688
John Napier This mathematician calculated the end of the world would be this year based on calculations from the
Book of Revelation.
[9]:92
1689
Pierre Jurieu This prophet predicted that Judgement Day would occur this year.
[8]:70
1694
John Mason This Anglican priest predicted the
Millennium would begin by this year.
[8]:72
Johann Heinrich Alsted Predicted the
Millennium would begin by this year.
[8]:66
Johann Jacob Zimmermann Believed that Jesus would return and the world would end this year.
[27]:19–20
1697
Cotton Mather This Puritan minister predicted the world would end this year. After the prediction failed, he revised the date of the End two more times.
[6]:338
1700
John Napier After his 1688 prediction failed to come true, Napier revised his end of the world prediction to this year.
[9]:92
Henry Archer In his 1642 work,
The Personall Reigne of Christ Upon Earth, Archer predicted the second coming of Jesus would occur in approximately this year.
[28]
1705
1706
1708
Camisards Camisard prophets predicted the end of the world would occur in either 1705, 1706 or 1708.
[8]:70
1716
Cotton Mather Revised prediction from Mather after his 1697 prediction failed to come true.
[6]:338
1719 Apr 5
Jacob Bernoulli This mathematician predicted a comet would destroy the Earth on this day.
[10]:240
1700–1734
Nicholas of Cusa This Cardinal predicted the end would occur between 1700 and 1734.
[13]:73
1736 Oct 16
William Whiston Whiston predicted a
comet colliding with the Earth this year.
[29]
1736
Cotton Mather Mather's third and final prediction for the end of the world.
[6]:338
1757
Emanuel Swedenborg Swedenborg claimed that the
Last Judgement occurred in the spiritual world this year.
[30]
1780 May 19
Connecticut General Assemblymembers,
New Englanders The sky turning dark during the day was
interpreted as a sign of the end times. The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover.
[31][32]
1789
Pierre d'Ailly The year 1789 would bring the coming of the Antichrist, according to this 14th-century Cardinal.
[9]:59
1792
1794
Shakers Predicted the world would end in both the years 1792 and 1794.
[6]:338
1795 Nov 19
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed While campaigning for
Richard Brothers' release, Halhead proclaimed that the world would end on this day.
[13]:310
1793–1795
Richard Brothers This retired sailor stated the
Millennium would begin between the years 1793 and 1795. He was eventually committed to an insane asylum.
[13]:73
1805
Christopher Love This Presbyterian minister predicted the destruction of the world by earthquake in 1805, followed by an age of everlasting peace when God would be known by all.
[26]:101
1806
Mary Bateman In
Leeds, England in 1806 a
hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written. Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The owner,
Mary Bateman, had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink so as to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen's
oviduct.
[7]:37
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1814 Oct 19
Joanna Southcott This 64-year-old self-described prophet claimed she was pregnant with the Christ child, and that he would be born on Oct 19, 1814. She died later that year having not delivered a child, and an autopsy proved she had not been pregnant.
[35]
1836
Johann Albrecht Bengel In the 1730s he proclaimed that, based on a careful study of the prophecies of the Bible, Judgment Day would come in 1836, with the Pope as the anti-Christ and the
Freemasonsrepresenting the "false prophet" of Revelations.
[36]
1836
John Wesley Wesley, the founder of the
Methodist Church, foresaw the
Millennium beginning this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to the years 1058–1836, "when Christ should come".
[7]:37
[13]:269
[37]
1843 Apr 28
1843 Dec 31
Millerites Although it was not officially endorsed by their leadership, many Millerites expected the Second Coming to occur on April 28 or at the end of 1843.
[38]:16
1843
Harriet Livermore The first of two years this preacher predicted the world would end.
[13]:699
1844 Mar 21
William Miller Miller predicted Christ would return on this day.
[38]:17
1844 Oct 22
Millerites After Christ did not return on March 21, 1844, the
Millerites then revised
William Miller's prediction to October 22, 1844, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the
Great Disappointment.
[7]:38
[38]:17
[39]
1847 Aug 7
George Rapp Rapp, the founder of the
Harmony Society, preached that Jesus would return in his lifetime, even as he lay dying on August 7, 1847.
[27]:23
1847
Harriet Livermore The second prediction of the end of the world from this preacher.
[13]:699
1853–1856
Various Many people[
who?] thought the
Crimean War was the Battle of
Armageddon.
[13]:437
1862
John Cumming This Scottish clergyman stated it was 6000 years since Creation in 1862, and that the world would end.
[6]:283
Joseph Morris An English convert to
Mormonism, Morris had revelations to gather his followers and wait for the
Second Coming, through successive prophesied days.
[40]
1863
John Wroe The founder of the
Christian Israelite Church calculated that the
Millennium would begin this year.
[35]
1873
Jonas Wendell In 1870, Wendell published his views in the booklet entitled
The Present Truth, or Meat in Due Season concluding that the
Second Advent was sure to occur in 1873.
[41]
1874
Charles Taze Russell Predicted the return of Jesus to occur in 1874, and after this date reinterpreted the prediction to say that Jesus had indeed returned in invisible form.
[42][43]
1875-1925
Wilford Woodruff President of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "[...] the Lord has not revealed to man the day or the hour, but he has revealed the generation [...] It is my faith that hundreds and thousands of the children that have been given to us will be alive in the flesh when Christ comes in the clouds of heaven in power and great glory." Historical life expectancy for Americans in 1875 was 50 years.
[44]
1881
Mother Shipton (attrib.) This 15th-century prophet was quoted as saying "The world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty one" in a book published in 1862. In 1873 it was revealed to be a forgery; however, this did not stop some people from expecting the end.
[10]:243
1890
Wovoka The founder of the
Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that the
Millennium would occur in 1890.
[17]:69
1901
Catholic Apostolic Church This church, founded in 1831, claimed that Jesus would return by the time the last of its 12 founding members died. The last member died in 1901.
[45]:87
1910
Camille Flammarion He predicted that the
1910 appearance of Halley's Comet "would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet", but not the planet itself. "Comet pills" were sold to protect against toxic gases. The comet indicated the
Second Coming to many.
[7]:38
[46]
1892–1911
Charles Piazzi Smyth This
pyramidologist concluded from his research on the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would occur somewhere between the years 1892 and 1911.
[27]:94
1914
Charles Taze Russell "...the battle of the great day of God Almighty… The date of the close of that "battle" is definitely marked in Scripture as October 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning dating from October, 1874."
[47]
1915
John Chilembwe This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in the British protectorate of
Nyasaland predicted the
Millennium would begin this year.
[17]:69
1918
International Bible Students Association "Christendom shall be cut off and glorification of the Little Flock (The Church) in the Spring of 1918 A. D."
[48][49]
1920
International Bible Students Association In 1918, Christendom would go down as a system to oblivion and be succeeded by revolutionary governments. God would "destroy the churches wholesale and the church members by the millions." Church members would "perish by the sword of war, revolution and anarchy." The dead would lie unburied. In 1920 all earthly governments would disappear, with worldwide anarchy prevailing.
[50]
1925 Feb 13
Margaret Rowen According to this
Seventh-Day Adventist, the angel
Gabriel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this date.
[6]:45
1926
Spencer Perceval (Junior) Son of the
former Prime Minister of Britain and one of the 12 Apostles of the
Catholic Apostolic Church. He believed that the world was growing nearer and nearer to the Apocalypse due to what he viewed as the rampant immorality of the times in Europe.
[51]
1935 Sep
Wilbur Glenn Voliva This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear" in September 1935.
[6]:287
1936
Herbert W. Armstrong The founder of the
Worldwide Church of God told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times.
[52]:99
1941
Jehovah's Witnesses A prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group which branched from the Bible Student movement.
[52]:72
1943
Herbert W. Armstrong The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true.
[52]:99
1947
John Ballou Newbrough The author of
Oahspe: A New Bible foresaw the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year.
[10]:243
1954 Dec 21
Dorothy Martin The world was to be destroyed by terrible flooding on this date, claimed this leader of a UFO cult called
Brotherhood of the Seven Rays. The fallout of the group after the prediction failed was the basis for the 1956 book
When Prophecy Fails.
[53]
1959 Apr 22 Florence Houteff The 2nd Prophet of the
Branch Davidians predicted the apocalypse foretold in the
Book of Revelation would proceed on this date. The failure of the prophecy led to the split of the sect into several subsects, the most prominent led by Benjamin and Lois Roden.
[54]
1962 Feb 4
Jeane Dixon, various Indian astrologers Dixon predicted a planetary alignment on this day was to bring destruction to the world. Mass prayer meetings were held in
India.
[6]:340
[55][56]
1967 Aug 20
George Van Tassel This day would mark the beginning of the third woe of the Apocalypse, during which the
southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet nuclear attack, according to this UFO prophet, who claimed to have channeled an alien named
Ashtar.
[57]:145
1967
Jim Jones The founder of the
People's Temple stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967.
[9]:214
1969 Aug 9
George Williams The founder of the
Church of the Firstborn predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
[58]:77
1969
Charles Manson Manson
predicted that an apocalyptic
race war would occur in 1969 and ordered the
Tate-LaBianca murders in an attempt to bring it about. Manson based his prediction on his interpretation of
The Beatles'
self-titled album.
[59]
1972
Herbert W. Armstrong The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true.
[52]:99
1974 Jan 11–21
David Berg Berg, the leader of
Children of God, predicted that there would be a colossal doomsday event heralded by
Comet Kohoutek.
[60][61]
1975
Herbert W. Armstrong Armstrong's fourth and final prediction.
[52]:99
Jehovah's Witnesses From 1966 on, Jehovah's Witnesses published articles which stated that the fall of 1975 would be 6000 years since man's creation, and suggested that
Armageddon could be finished by then.
More details.
[62][63]
1976
Lekhraj Kirpalani Lekhraj Kirpalani's third prediction.
Brahma Kumaris The Brahma Kumaris founder, Lekhraj Kirpalani, has made a number of predictions of a global Armageddon which the religion believes it will inspire, internally calling it "Destruction" but externally presenting it as "Transformation". During Destruction, Brahma Kumari leaders teach the world will be purified, all of the rest of humanity killed by nuclear or civil wars and natural disasters which will include the sinking of all other continents except
India. All other religions will also be destroyed, so that they alone will inherit the Earth for 2,500 years. These predictions are generally hidden from outsiders and, as they have failed, have been removed from their literature.
[64][65]
1977
John Wroe The founder of the
Christian Israelite Church predicted this year for
Armageddon to occur.
[10]:243
William M. Branham This Christian minister predicted the Rapture would occur no later than the year 1977.
[66]
1980
Leland Jensen In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in
God's Kingdom being established on Earth.
[67]
1981
Chuck Smith The founder of
Calvary Chapel predicted the generation of 1948 would be the last generation, and that the world would end by 1981. Smith identified that he "could be wrong" but continued to say in the same sentence that his prediction was "a deep conviction in my heart, and all my plans are predicated upon that belief."
[68][69]
1982 Apr–Jun Tara Centers Full-page ads in many newspapers April 24–25, 1982, stated that "The Christ is Now Here!" and that he would make himself known "within the next two months".
[7]:39
1982 Mar 10
John Gribbin, Stephen Plagemann Predicted in their 1974 book
The Jupiter Effect that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the
San Andreas Fault.
[6]:62
[46]
1982 Jun 21
Benjamin Creme Creme took out an ad in the
Los Angeles Times stating that the Second Coming would occur in June 1982 with the
Maitreya announcing it on worldwide television.
[70]
1982
Pat Robertson In late 1976 on his
700 Club TV programme, Robertson predicted that the end of the world would come in this year.
[71][72]
1985
Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled
I Predict 1985.
[6]:99
1986 Apr 29
Leland Jensen Jensen predicted that
Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on April 29, 1986, causing widespread destruction.
[58]:73, 76
1987 Aug 17
José Argüelles Argüelles claimed that
Armageddon would take place unless 144,000 people gathered in certain places across the world in order to "
resonate in harmony" on this day.
[8]:156
1988 Sep 13
1988 Oct 3
Edgar C. Whisenant Whisenant predicted in his book
88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988 that the Rapture of the Christian Church would occur between September 11–13, 1988. After his September predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to October 3.
[6]:93
[73]
1989 Sep 30
Edgar C. Whisenant After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day.
[6]:93
1990 Apr 23
Elizabeth Clare Prophet Prophet predicted a nuclear war would start on this day, with the world ending 12 years later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with supplies and weapons. Later, after Prophet's prediction did not come to pass, she was diagnosed with
epilepsy and
Alzheimer's disease.
[4]:61
[74]
1991 Sep 9
Menachem Mendel Schneerson This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the
Jewish New Year.
[7]:40
1991
Louis Farrakhan The leader of the
Nation of Islam declared that the
Gulf War would be the "War of Armageddon which is the final war."
[6]:307
1992 Sep 28
Rollen Stewart This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day.
[75]
1992 Oct 28 Lee Jang Rim
(이장림 or 李長林)
Lee, the leader of the
Dami Mission church, predicted the rapture would occur on this day.
[76]
1993
David Berg Berg predicted the
tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993.
[8]:145
1994 May 2
Neal Chase This
Bahá'í sect leader predicted that
New York would be destroyed by a nuclear bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days later.
[58]:79
1994 Sep 6
1994 Sep 29
1994 Oct 2
Harold Camping Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on September 6, 1994. When it failed to occur he revised the date to September 29 and then to October 2.
[6]:95
[77]
1995 Mar 31
Harold Camping Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011.
[6]:95
1996 Dec 17
Sheldan Nidle Californian psychic Sheldan Nidle predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels.
[78]
1997 Mar 26
Marshall Applewhite Applewhite, leader of the
Heaven's Gate cult, claimed that a spacecraft was trailing the
Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide was "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so that the cult members' souls could board the supposed craft and be taken to another "level of existence above human". Applewhite and 38 of his followers committed mass suicide.
[79]
1997 Aug 10
Aggai The 1st-century bishop of
Edessa predicted this date to be the birth date of the Antichrist and the end of the universe.
[17]:72
1997 Oct 23
James Ussher This 17th-century Irish archbishop predicted this date to be 6000 years since Creation, and therefore the end of the world.
[17]:68
1998 Mar 31
Chen Tao
(陳恆明)
Hon-Ming Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult
God's Salvation Church, or
Chen Tao – "The True Way" – claimed that God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date. Moreover, God would have the same physical appearance as Chen himself. Chen chose to base his cult in
Garland, Texas, because he thought it sounded like "God's Land." On March 25, God was to appear on Channel 18 on every TV set in the US.
[7]:43
[80]
1999 Jul
Nostradamus A prediction attributed to Nostradamus stating the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" led to fears of the end.
[81]
1999 Aug 18
The Amazing Criswell The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for predictions.
[6]:43
1999 Sep 11
Philip Berg Berg, dean of the worldwide
Kabbalah Centre, stated that on this date "a ball of fire will descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all vegetation, all forms of life."
[7]:44
1999
Charles Berlitz This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would occur, stating that it might involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other Earth changes.
[8]:194
Hon-Ming Chen
(陳恆明)
Hon-Ming Chen's cult God's Salvation Church, now relocated to
upstate New York, preached that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe and Asia sometime between October 1 and December 31, 1999.
James Gordon Lindsay This preacher predicted the great tribulation would begin before the year 2000.
[6]:280
Timothy Dwight IV This President of
Yale University foresaw Christ's
Millennium starting by 2000.
[8]:81
Nazim Al-Haqqani Predicted that the
Last Judgment would occur before the year 2000.
[82]
2000 Jan 1
Various During and before 1999 there was widespread predictions of a
Y2K computer bug that would crash many computers on midnight of December 31, 1999 and cause malfunctions leading to major catastrophes worldwide, and that society would cease to function.
Year 2000 problem
Credonia Mwerinde,
Joseph Kibweteere An estimated 778 followers of this
Ugandan religious movement perished in a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a
group suicide or an orchestrated
mass murder by group leaders after their predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.
[83][84]:21
Jerry Falwell Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on this day.
[85]
Tim LaHaye,
Jerry B. Jenkins These Christian authors stated that the Y2K bug would trigger global economic chaos, which the Antichrist would use to rise to power. As the date approached, however, they changed their minds.
[86]
2000 Apr 6 James Harmston The leader of the
True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
[13]:2496
2000 May 5
Nuwaubian Nation This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust," pulling the planets toward the sun on this day.
[57]:121
Richard W. Noone In his book
5/5/2000: Ice, The Ultimate Disaster, Noone predicted that a "planetary alignment" on this date would trigger a series of natural disasters, beginning with a disruption of Earth's polar ice caps.
[87]
2000
Peter Olivi This 13th-century theologian wrote that the Antichrist would come to power between the years 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgement would take place around the year 2000.
[9]:54
Isaac Newton Newton predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his book
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. [26]:96
Ruth Montgomery This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.
[8]:156, 195
Edgar Cayce This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.
[88]
Sun Myung Moon The founder of the
Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year.
[8]:148
Ed Dobson This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book
The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.
[89]
Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in his book
I Predict 2000.
[6]:99, 341
Jonathan Edwards This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year.
[9]:171
2001
Tynnetta Muhammad This columnist for the
Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year.
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2002 Various
Yoruba Yoruba priests predicted dramatic tragedy and crisis in 2002, including coups, war, disease, and flooding.
2003 May 27 Nancy Lieder Lieder originally predicted the date for the
Nibiru collision as May 2003. According to her website, aliens in the Zeta Reticuli star system told her through messages via a brain implant of a planet which would enter our solar system and cause a pole shift on Earth that would destroy most of humanity.
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2003 Nov 29
Aum Shinrikyo This Japanese cult predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between October 30 and November 29, 2003.
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2006 Sep 12
House of Yahweh Yisrayl Hawkins, Pastor and Overseer, The House of Yahweh,
Abilene, Texas in their February 2006 newsletter predicted the start of a nuclear war on September 12, 2006.
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2007 Apr 29
Pat Robertson In his 1990 book
The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction.
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2010
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn This order predicted the world would end during this year.
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2011 May 21
Harold Camping Camping predicted that the
Rapture and devastating
earthquakes would occur on May 21, 2011 with God taking approximately 3% of the world's population into Heaven, and that the end of the world would occur five months later on October 21.
2011 end times prediction
2011 Sep 29
Ronald Weinland Ronald Weinland stated Jesus Christ would return on this day. He prophesied nuclear explosions in U.S. port cities by July 2008 as the blowing of the Second Trumpet of Revelation. After his prophecy failed to come true he changed the date for the return of Jesus Christ to May 27, 2012.
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2011 Oct 21
Harold Camping When his original prediction failed to come about, Camping revised his prediction and said that on May 21, a "Spiritual Judgment" took place, and that both the physical Rapture and the end of the world would occur on October 21, 2011.
2011 end times prediction
2011 Aug–Oct
Various There were fears amongst the public that
Comet Elenin travelling almost directly between Earth and the Sun would cause disturbances to the Earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes and tidal waves. Others predicted that Elenin would collide with Earth on October 16. Scientists tried to calm fears by stating that none of these events were possible.
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2012 May 27
Ronald Weinland Ronald Weinland stated that Jesus Christ would return and the world would end on this day.
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2012 Jun 30
José Luis de Jesús José Luis de Jesús predicted that the world's governments and economies would fail on this day, and that he and his followers would undergo a transformation that would allow them to fly and walk through walls.
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2012 Dec 21
Various The supposed
Mayan apocalypse at the end of the
13th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an
asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an
alien invasion; or a
supernova.
Mayanist scholars stated that no extant
classic Maya accounts forecasted impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented
Maya history and culture.
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NASA, along with expert archeologists, stated that none of those events were possible.
2012 phenomenon
2013 Aug 23
Grigori Rasputin Rasputin prophesied a storm would take place on this day where fire would destroy most life on land and Jesus Christ would come back to Earth to comfort those in distress.
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2014 Apr – 2015 Sep
John Hagee and Mark Biltz The so-called
Blood Moon Prophecy, first predicted by Mark Blitz in 2008 and then by
John Hagee in 2014. These Christian ministers claimed that the
tetrad in 2014 and 2015 may allegedly represent prophecies given in the Bible relating to the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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2016 Jul 29 End Time Prophecies A
viral video from the
YouTube channel "End Time Prophecies" claimed that the world would end on this day. They predicted that the
Earth would undergo a "polar flip", which would apparently cause the Earth's atmosphere to be pulled to the ground as the surface reels like a vacuum, causing a "rolling cloud" to cover the planet. They also claimed that a worldwide
"megaquake" would ensue.
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2017 May 13 Horacio Villegas Villegas claimed that the world would descend into nuclear war on May 13, 2017, due to increased tensions on the
Korean Peninsula. He also said this date coincided with the hundred-year anniversary of the visitation of
Our Lady of Fátima.
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