The Legend - Main Types of Prediction - Chronology - Bibliography
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This is the chronological list of End of the World predictions. The actual predictions are listed in this manner:
| Date of End | - | Nature of End | Predictor(s) | |
| Further detail/explaination, if I felt it was necessary. | ||||
Note that, in the list, if the predictor gave no particular details about how they thought the world would end, I simply listed the Nature of End as "End of the World". I hope that's pretty clear... and now, the list.
| 1 A.D. ~ 100 A.D. | - | Judgement Day | New Testament | |
| Jesus told his apostles that the Kingdom of God would come to Earth before the last of them died... Matthew 16:28, Mark 8:39, and Luke 9:27. | ||||
| 992 | - | Judgement Day | Bernard of Thuringia | |
| 1000, Jan | - | Second Coming | ? | |
| 1033 | - | Second Coming | Raoul Glaber | |
| 1186, Sep | - | Astrological Alignment | John of Toledo | |
| 1260 | - | Judgement Day | Monk Joachim and the Joachites | |
| 1265 | - | Judgement Day | Prestor John | |
| 1345 | - | Judgement Day | ? | |
| 1350 | - | Judgement Day | ? | |
| 1381 | - | Judgement Day | The Peasants' Revolt | |
| 1420 | - | Judgement Day | The Taborites | |
| 1524, Feb 1 | - | Second Great Flood | Astrologers, various | |
| 1524, Feb 20 | - | Second Great Flood | Johannes Stoeffler | |
| 1528 | - | Second Great Flood | Johannes Stoeffler | |
| 1532 | - | End of the World | Frederick Nausea | |
| 1533 | - | Judgement Day | Melchior Hoffmann | |
| 1533, Oct 3, 8 a.m. | - | Judgement Day | Michael Stifel/Stifelius | |
| 1534 | - | Judgement Day | Matthysz | |
| 1537 | - | Judgement Day | Pierre Turrel | |
| 1544 | - | Judgement Day | Pierre Turrel | |
| 1584 | - | End of the World | Cyprian Leowitz | |
| 1588 | - | End of the World | Johann Muller/Regiomontanus | |
| 1624, Feb 1 | - | Second Great Flood | Astrologers, various | |
| 1648 | - | Second Coming | Rabbi Sabbati Zevi | |
| 1654 | - | End of the World | Helisaeus Roeslin of Alsace | |
| 1654, Aug 12 | - | End of the World | ? | |
| 1656 | - | Judgement Day | Columbus | |
| Yes, the same guy credited with finding the Americas for Spain. | ||||
| 1657 | - | Judgement Day | The Fifth Monarchy Men | |
| 1665 | - | End of the World | Solomon Eccles | |
| 1666 | - | Second Coming | Rabbi Sabbati Zevi | |
| 1704 | - | End of the World | Cardinal Nicholas de Cusa | |
| 1719, May 19 | - | Comet Collision | Jacques Bernoulli | |
| 1736, Oct. 13 | - | Judgement Day | Whiston | |
| 1757 | - | End of the World | Emanuel Swedenborg | |
| 1761, April 5 | - | Judgement Day | William Bell | |
| 1774 | - | Second Coming | Joanna Southcott | |
| 1801 | - | Judgement Day | Pierre Turrel | |
| 1806 | - | Second Coming | Chicken Egg | |
| 1814 | - | Judgement Day | Pierre Turrel | |
| 1832 | - | Comet Collision | Scientific Guess | |
| 1843, April 3 | - | Judgement Day | William Miller | |
| 1843, July 7 | - | Judgement Day | William Miller | |
| 1844, March 21 | - | Judgement Day | William Miller | |
| 1844, Oct. 22 | - | Judgement Day | William Miller | |
| 1874 | - | End of the World | Charles Taze Russell | |
| ANOMALIES Note: This date appears to be reported in error by James Randi. This is in fact the date on which Charles Taze Russell made a prediction, not a date he predicted. It was on this day that Russell predicted that Jesus would return to Earth in the year 1914. | ||||
| 1881 | - | End of the World | ? | |
| This was based on measurements made of the Pyramids of Giza, with the belief that they hold an encoded future history. | ||||
| 1881 | - | End of the World | Mother Shipton | |
| 1890 | - | New World Begins | The Ghost Dance Movement | |
| 1914 | - | Judgement Day | Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 1918 | - | Judgement Day | Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 1920 | - | Second Coming | Col. J. Garnier | |
| 1920, Feb. | - | Judgement Day | Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 1925 | - | Judgement Day | Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 1936 | - | End of the World | ? | |
| This was based on measurements made of the Pyramids of Giza, with the belief that they hold an encoded future history. | ||||
| 1941 | - | Judgement Day | Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 1947 | - | End of the World | John Ballou | |
| 1948 | - | Judgement Day | Millerites | |
| 1953 | - | End of the World | ? | |
| This was based on measurements made of the Pyramids of Giza, with the belief that they hold an encoded future history. | ||||
| 1972 | - | Judgement Day | Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 1975 | - | Second Coming | Herbert Armstrong/Worldwide Church of God | |
| 1975 | - | Judgement Day | Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 1977 | - | End of the World | John Wroe | |
| 1980, Dec 31 | - | End of the World | Old Arabic astronomical calculation | |
| 1982, Mar 10 | - | Harmonic alignment | ? | |
| The idea was that when all the planets in the solar system lined up just right, the resulting gravitational stresses would devestate the Earth. | ||||
| 1986 | - | World War III? | Nostradamus | |
| 1989 | - | Judgement Day | Implied (accidently?) by Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| In an 1988 issue of Awake! magazine published by Watchtower, which had the question "Are We In The Last Days?" on the cover, an article discussing the long held belief that the end would come within the lifespan of those followers who were alive in 1914 mentioned that 75 years was generally considered a normal lifespan... 1914 + 75 = 1989. | ||||
| 1992 | - | Judgement Day | Korean Christian prediction | |
| 1994, September | - | Judgement Day | Harold Camping, Family Radio Network | |
| 1994, Oct. 2 | - | Judgement Day | Harold Camping, Family Radio Network | |
| 1995, April 16 | - | Judgement Day | Korean Christian prediction | |
| 1996 | - | End of the World | ? | |
| 1999, July | - | Antichrist | Nostradamus | |
| 2000 | - | World War III and Antichrist | Nostradamus | |
| 2000, Jan 1 | - | 2000/1900 date error in computers | American Mass Media | |
| 2002, June 21 | - | Second Coming | Nostradamus | |
| 2100 | - | Environmental Crash | ? | |
