List of religious end times/Second coming of Jesus predictions
November 22, 2018 at 4:47 am
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Wikipedia:
Some predictions of end times aren't from believers.
66–70
Simon bar Giora, Jewish Essenes
The Jewish Essene sect of ascetics saw the Jewish uprising 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.
[14]
[15]
365
Hilary of Poitiers
This early French bishop announced the end of the world would happen during this year.
[16]
375–400
Martin of Tours
This 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."
[17]
[18]
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.
[19]
[20]
6 Apr 793
Beatus of Liébana
This 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.
[19]
800
Sextus Julius Africanus
This Christian historian revised his prediction from the year 500 to 800.
[21]
799–806
Gregory of Tours
This French bishop calculated the end would occur between 799 and 806.
[22]
847
Thiota
This Christian declared in 847 that the world would end that year, though later confessed the prediction was fraudulent and was publicly flogged.
[23]
[24]
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 three years.
[25]
1 Jan 1000
Pope Sylvester II
Various Christian clerics predicted this date as the Millennium, including Pope Sylvester II. Riots occurred in Europe and pilgrims headed east to Jerusalem.
[26]
[27]
1033
Various Christians
Following the failure of the 1 January 1000, prediction, some theorists proposed that the end would occur 1000 years after Jesus' death, instead of his birth.
[19]
[28]
1200–1260
Joachim of Fiore
This Italian mystic determined that the Millennium would begin between 1200 and 1260.
[29]
1284
Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III (died 1216) predicted that the world would end 666 years after the rise of Islam.
[17]
1290
1335
Joachimites
After his 1260 prediction failed, the followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled the end of the world to 1290 and then again to 1335.
[30]
1346–1351
Various Europeans
The Black Death spreading across Europe was interpreted by many as the sign of the end of times.
[31]
[32]
1368–1370
Jean de Roquetaillade
This French alchemist predicted the Antichrist was to come in 1366 and the Millennium would begin either in 1368 or 1370.
[33]
1378
Arnaldus de Villa Nova
This Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was to come during this year.
[34]
1504
Sandro Botticelli
This painter believed he was living during the Tribulation, and that the Millennium would begin in three and a half years from 1500. He wrote into his painting The Mystical Nativity that the Devil was loose and would soon be chained.
[35]
[36]
1 Feb 1524
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. Twenty thousand Londoners left their homes and headed for higher ground in anticipation.
[37]
[38]
20 Feb 1524
Johannes Stöffler
A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen by this astrologer as a sign of the Millennium.
[37]
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.
[28]
[39]
27 May 1528
Hans Hut
This German Anabaptist predicted the end would occur on this date.
[40]
1528
Johannes Stöffler
A revised date from Stöffler after his 1524 prediction failed to come true.
[41]
19 Oct 1533
Michael Stifel
This mathematician calculated that Judgement Day would begin at 8:00 am on this day.
[42]
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.
[43]
5 Apr 1534
Jan Matthys
During the Münster rebellion, this Anabaptist leader declared that the apocalypse would take place on this day. When the day came he led a failed attack against Franz von Waldeck and was decapitated.
[44]
1555
Pierre d'Ailly
Around 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.
[45]
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.
[46]
1588
Regiomontanus
This mathematician and astronomer predicted the end of the world during this year.
[47]
1600
Martin Luther
Luther, a German priest and professor of theology, predicted the end of the world would occur no later than 1600.
[48]
1 Feb 1624
London astrologers
The same astrologers who predicted the deluge of 1 February 1524, recalculated the date to 100 years later after their first prophecy failed.
[37]
[38]
1648
Sabbatai Zevi
Using the kabbalah, this rabbi from Turkey proclaimed that the Messiah would come during that year.
[47]
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.
[49]
[50]
1654
Helisaeus Roeslin
This physician made a prediction that the world would end this year based on a nova that occurred in 1572.
[51]
1656
Christopher Columbus
In his Book of Prophecies (1501), Columbus predicted that the world would end during this year.
[52]
[53]
1655–1657
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.
[54]
1658
Christopher Columbus
Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. Assuming no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658.
[55]
1660
Joseph Mede
Mede claimed that the Antichrist had appeared in 456, and the end would come in 1660.
[56]
1666
Sabbatai Zevi
Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth for this year.
[47]
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.
[57]
[58]
1673
William Aspinwall
This Fifth Monarchist claimed the Millennium would begin by this year.
[59]
1688
John Napier
This mathematician calculated the end of the world would be this year based on calculations from the Book of Revelation.
[60]
1689
Pierre Jurieu
This prophet predicted that Judgement Day would occur this year.
[61]
1694
John Mason
This Anglican priest predicted the Millennium would begin by this year.
[62]
Johann Heinrich Alsted
This Calvinist minister predicted the Millennium would begin by this year.
[63]
Johann Jacob Zimmermann
Believed that Jesus would return and the world would end this year.
[64]
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.
[44]
1700
John Napier
Following his 1688 prediction, Napier recalculated his end of the world prediction to 1700 in A Plaine Discovery, a book published in 1593.
[65]
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.
[66]
1705–1708
Camisards
Camisard prophets predicted the end of the world would occur in either 1705, 1706 or 1708.
[61]
1716
Cotton Mather
Revised prediction from Mather after his 1697 prediction failed to come true.
[44]
5 Apr 1719
Jacob Bernoulli
This mathematician predicted a comet would destroy the Earth on this day.
[51]
1700–1734
Nicholas of Cusa
This cardinal predicted the end would occur between 1700 and 1734.
[67]
16 Oct 1736
William Whiston
This theologian predicted a comet colliding with the Earth this year.
[68]
1736
Cotton Mather
Mather's third and final prediction for the end of the world.
[44]
1757
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedenborg, a former Lutheran, claimed that the Last Judgement occurred in the spiritual world this year.
[69]
[70]
19 May 1780
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.
[71]
1789
Pierre d'Ailly
The year 1789 would bring the coming of the Antichrist, according to this 14th-century cardinal.
[72]
1792
1794
Shakers
The Shakers, a Christian sect founded in 18th century England, predicted the world would end in 1792 and then in 1794.
[44]
19 Nov 1795
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
While campaigning for Richard Brothers' release, Halhead proclaimed that the world would end on this day.
[73]
1793–1795
Richard Brothers
This retired sailor stated the Millennium would begin between 1793 and 1795. He was eventually committed to an insane asylum.
[67]
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.
[74]
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.
[75]
[76]
19 Oct 1814
Joanna Southcott
This 64-year-old self-described prophet claimed she was pregnant with the Christ child, and that he would be born on October 19, 1814. She died later that year having not delivered a child, and an autopsy proved she had not been pregnant.
[77]
1836
Johann Albrecht Bengel
In the 1730s this Lutheran clergyman proclaimed that Judgment Day would come in 1836, with the pope as the anti-Christ and the Freemasons representing the "false prophet" of Revelations.
[78]
1836
John Wesley
Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to 1058 to 1836, "when Christ should come".
[75]
[79]
28 Apr 1843
31 Dec 1843
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.
[80]
1843
Harriet Livermore
The first of two years this preacher predicted the world would end.
[81]
21 Mar 1844
William Miller
Miller, a Baptist preacher, predicted Christ would return on this day.
[82]
22 Oct 1844
Millerites
After Christ did not return on 21 March 1844, the Millerites then revised William Miller's prediction to 22 October that year, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the Great Disappointment.
[82]
[83]
7 Aug 1847
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.
[84]
1847
Harriet Livermore
The second prediction of the end of the world from this preacher.
[81]
1862
John Cumming
This Scottish clergyman stated it was 6000 years since creation in 1862, and that the world would end.
[85]
Joseph Morris
An English convert to Mormonism, Morris had revelations to gather his followers and wait for the Second Coming, through successive prophesied days.
[86]
1863
John Wroe
The founder of the Christian Israelite Church calculated that the Millennium would begin this year.
[77]
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.
[87]
1874
Charles Taze Russell
This Christian minister 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.
[88]
[89]
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.
[90]
1890
Wovoka
The founder of the Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that the Millennium would occur in 1890.
[91]
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.
[92]
23 Apr 1908
Michael Paget Baxter
The last of numerous apocalyptic predictions by this Anglican evangelist and author; this prediction was published in 1894.
[93]
1910
Camille Flammarion
Flammarion 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.
[83]
[94]
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 1892 and 1911.
[95]
1914
Charles Taze Russell
Russell said "...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."
[96]
1915
John Chilembwe
This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in the British protectorate of Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year.
[91]
1918
"Christendom shall be cut off and glorification of the Little Flock (The Church) in the Spring of 1918 A. D."
[97]
1920
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.
[98]
13 Feb 1925
According to this Seventh-Day Adventist, the angel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this date.
[99]
1926
This British MP, who was one of the 12 apostles of the , believed that the world was growing nearer to the Apocalypse due to what he viewed as the rampant immorality of the times in Europe.
[100]
Sep 1935
This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear" in September 1935.
[101]
1936
The founder of the told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would be saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times.
[102]
1941
A prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group which branched from the Bible Student movement.
[103]
1943
Herbert W. Armstrong
The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true.
[102]
1947
The author of Oahspe: A New Bible foresaw the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year.
[90]
21 Dec 1954
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.
[104]
22 Apr 1959
Florence Houteff
The second prophet of the Branch Davidians predicted the apocalypse foretold in the 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.
[105]
4 Feb 1962
, 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.
[106]
[107]
20 Aug 1967
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 .
[108]
1967
The founder of the stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967.
[109]
9 Aug 1969
The founder of the predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
[110]
1969
Manson predicted that , an apocalyptic race war, would occur in 1969.
[111]
1972
The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true.
[102]
Jan 1974
Berg, the leader of Children of God, predicted that there would be a colossal doomsday event heralded by .
[112]
1975
Herbert W. Armstrong
Armstrong's fourth and final prediction.
[102]
From 1966 on, Jehovah's Witnesses published articles which stated that , and suggested that Armageddon could be finished by then.
[113]
1976
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". 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 .
[114]
1977
The founder of the predicted this year for Armageddon to occur.
[90]
This Christian minister predicted the Rapture would occur no later than 1977.
[115]
17 Feb 1979
Thériault, who called himself Moïse (Moses), led a commune in the wilderness of eastern Quebec in the late seventies. Formerly a , he told his group they would form the center of a new society during God's 1000 year reign following Armageddon.
[116]
1980
In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in being established on Earth.
[117]
1981
The founder of 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."
[118]
[119]
Apr–Jun 1982
Tara Centers
Full-page ads in many newspapers April 24 and 25, 1982, stated that "The Christ is Now Here!" and that he would make himself known "within the next two months".
[120]
10 Mar 1982
, Stephen Plagemann
Gribbin, an astrophysicist, co-authored the 1974 book The Jupiter Effect which predicted that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the .
[94]
[121]
Some predictions of end times aren't from believers.
66–70
Simon bar Giora, Jewish Essenes
The Jewish Essene sect of ascetics saw the Jewish uprising 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.
[14]
[15]
365
Hilary of Poitiers
This early French bishop announced the end of the world would happen during this year.
[16]
375–400
Martin of Tours
This 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."
[17]
[18]
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.
[19]
[20]
6 Apr 793
Beatus of Liébana
This 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.
[19]
800
Sextus Julius Africanus
This Christian historian revised his prediction from the year 500 to 800.
[21]
799–806
Gregory of Tours
This French bishop calculated the end would occur between 799 and 806.
[22]
847
Thiota
This Christian declared in 847 that the world would end that year, though later confessed the prediction was fraudulent and was publicly flogged.
[23]
[24]
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 three years.
[25]
1 Jan 1000
Pope Sylvester II
Various Christian clerics predicted this date as the Millennium, including Pope Sylvester II. Riots occurred in Europe and pilgrims headed east to Jerusalem.
[26]
[27]
1033
Various Christians
Following the failure of the 1 January 1000, prediction, some theorists proposed that the end would occur 1000 years after Jesus' death, instead of his birth.
[19]
[28]
1200–1260
Joachim of Fiore
This Italian mystic determined that the Millennium would begin between 1200 and 1260.
[29]
1284
Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III (died 1216) predicted that the world would end 666 years after the rise of Islam.
[17]
1290
1335
Joachimites
After his 1260 prediction failed, the followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled the end of the world to 1290 and then again to 1335.
[30]
1346–1351
Various Europeans
The Black Death spreading across Europe was interpreted by many as the sign of the end of times.
[31]
[32]
1368–1370
Jean de Roquetaillade
This French alchemist predicted the Antichrist was to come in 1366 and the Millennium would begin either in 1368 or 1370.
[33]
1378
Arnaldus de Villa Nova
This Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was to come during this year.
[34]
1504
Sandro Botticelli
This painter believed he was living during the Tribulation, and that the Millennium would begin in three and a half years from 1500. He wrote into his painting The Mystical Nativity that the Devil was loose and would soon be chained.
[35]
[36]
1 Feb 1524
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. Twenty thousand Londoners left their homes and headed for higher ground in anticipation.
[37]
[38]
20 Feb 1524
Johannes Stöffler
A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen by this astrologer as a sign of the Millennium.
[37]
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.
[28]
[39]
27 May 1528
Hans Hut
This German Anabaptist predicted the end would occur on this date.
[40]
1528
Johannes Stöffler
A revised date from Stöffler after his 1524 prediction failed to come true.
[41]
19 Oct 1533
Michael Stifel
This mathematician calculated that Judgement Day would begin at 8:00 am on this day.
[42]
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.
[43]
5 Apr 1534
Jan Matthys
During the Münster rebellion, this Anabaptist leader declared that the apocalypse would take place on this day. When the day came he led a failed attack against Franz von Waldeck and was decapitated.
[44]
1555
Pierre d'Ailly
Around 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.
[45]
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.
[46]
1588
Regiomontanus
This mathematician and astronomer predicted the end of the world during this year.
[47]
1600
Martin Luther
Luther, a German priest and professor of theology, predicted the end of the world would occur no later than 1600.
[48]
1 Feb 1624
London astrologers
The same astrologers who predicted the deluge of 1 February 1524, recalculated the date to 100 years later after their first prophecy failed.
[37]
[38]
1648
Sabbatai Zevi
Using the kabbalah, this rabbi from Turkey proclaimed that the Messiah would come during that year.
[47]
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.
[49]
[50]
1654
Helisaeus Roeslin
This physician made a prediction that the world would end this year based on a nova that occurred in 1572.
[51]
1656
Christopher Columbus
In his Book of Prophecies (1501), Columbus predicted that the world would end during this year.
[52]
[53]
1655–1657
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.
[54]
1658
Christopher Columbus
Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. Assuming no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658.
[55]
1660
Joseph Mede
Mede claimed that the Antichrist had appeared in 456, and the end would come in 1660.
[56]
1666
Sabbatai Zevi
Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth for this year.
[47]
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.
[57]
[58]
1673
William Aspinwall
This Fifth Monarchist claimed the Millennium would begin by this year.
[59]
1688
John Napier
This mathematician calculated the end of the world would be this year based on calculations from the Book of Revelation.
[60]
1689
Pierre Jurieu
This prophet predicted that Judgement Day would occur this year.
[61]
1694
John Mason
This Anglican priest predicted the Millennium would begin by this year.
[62]
Johann Heinrich Alsted
This Calvinist minister predicted the Millennium would begin by this year.
[63]
Johann Jacob Zimmermann
Believed that Jesus would return and the world would end this year.
[64]
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.
[44]
1700
John Napier
Following his 1688 prediction, Napier recalculated his end of the world prediction to 1700 in A Plaine Discovery, a book published in 1593.
[65]
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.
[66]
1705–1708
Camisards
Camisard prophets predicted the end of the world would occur in either 1705, 1706 or 1708.
[61]
1716
Cotton Mather
Revised prediction from Mather after his 1697 prediction failed to come true.
[44]
5 Apr 1719
Jacob Bernoulli
This mathematician predicted a comet would destroy the Earth on this day.
[51]
1700–1734
Nicholas of Cusa
This cardinal predicted the end would occur between 1700 and 1734.
[67]
16 Oct 1736
William Whiston
This theologian predicted a comet colliding with the Earth this year.
[68]
1736
Cotton Mather
Mather's third and final prediction for the end of the world.
[44]
1757
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedenborg, a former Lutheran, claimed that the Last Judgement occurred in the spiritual world this year.
[69]
[70]
19 May 1780
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.
[71]
1789
Pierre d'Ailly
The year 1789 would bring the coming of the Antichrist, according to this 14th-century cardinal.
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1792
1794
Shakers
The Shakers, a Christian sect founded in 18th century England, predicted the world would end in 1792 and then in 1794.
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19 Nov 1795
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
While campaigning for Richard Brothers' release, Halhead proclaimed that the world would end on this day.
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1793–1795
Richard Brothers
This retired sailor stated the Millennium would begin between 1793 and 1795. He was eventually committed to an insane asylum.
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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.
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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.
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19 Oct 1814
Joanna Southcott
This 64-year-old self-described prophet claimed she was pregnant with the Christ child, and that he would be born on October 19, 1814. She died later that year having not delivered a child, and an autopsy proved she had not been pregnant.
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1836
Johann Albrecht Bengel
In the 1730s this Lutheran clergyman proclaimed that Judgment Day would come in 1836, with the pope as the anti-Christ and the Freemasons representing the "false prophet" of Revelations.
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1836
John Wesley
Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to 1058 to 1836, "when Christ should come".
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28 Apr 1843
31 Dec 1843
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.
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1843
Harriet Livermore
The first of two years this preacher predicted the world would end.
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21 Mar 1844
William Miller
Miller, a Baptist preacher, predicted Christ would return on this day.
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22 Oct 1844
Millerites
After Christ did not return on 21 March 1844, the Millerites then revised William Miller's prediction to 22 October that year, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the Great Disappointment.
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7 Aug 1847
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.
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1847
Harriet Livermore
The second prediction of the end of the world from this preacher.
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1862
John Cumming
This Scottish clergyman stated it was 6000 years since creation in 1862, and that the world would end.
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Joseph Morris
An English convert to Mormonism, Morris had revelations to gather his followers and wait for the Second Coming, through successive prophesied days.
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1863
John Wroe
The founder of the Christian Israelite Church calculated that the Millennium would begin this year.
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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.
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1874
Charles Taze Russell
This Christian minister 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.
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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.
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1890
Wovoka
The founder of the Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that the Millennium would occur in 1890.
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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.
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23 Apr 1908
Michael Paget Baxter
The last of numerous apocalyptic predictions by this Anglican evangelist and author; this prediction was published in 1894.
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1910
Camille Flammarion
Flammarion 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.
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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 1892 and 1911.
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1914
Charles Taze Russell
Russell said "...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."
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1915
John Chilembwe
This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in the British protectorate of Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year.
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1918
"Christendom shall be cut off and glorification of the Little Flock (The Church) in the Spring of 1918 A. D."
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1920
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.
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13 Feb 1925
According to this Seventh-Day Adventist, the angel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this date.
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1926
This British MP, who was one of the 12 apostles of the , believed that the world was growing nearer to the Apocalypse due to what he viewed as the rampant immorality of the times in Europe.
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Sep 1935
This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear" in September 1935.
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1936
The founder of the told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would be saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times.
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1941
A prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group which branched from the Bible Student movement.
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1943
Herbert W. Armstrong
The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true.
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1947
The author of Oahspe: A New Bible foresaw the destruction of all nations and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year.
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21 Dec 1954
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.
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22 Apr 1959
Florence Houteff
The second prophet of the Branch Davidians predicted the apocalypse foretold in the 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.
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4 Feb 1962
, 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.
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20 Aug 1967
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 .
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1967
The founder of the stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967.
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9 Aug 1969
The founder of the predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
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1969
Manson predicted that , an apocalyptic race war, would occur in 1969.
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1972
The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 predictions failed to come true.
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Jan 1974
Berg, the leader of Children of God, predicted that there would be a colossal doomsday event heralded by .
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1975
Herbert W. Armstrong
Armstrong's fourth and final prediction.
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From 1966 on, Jehovah's Witnesses published articles which stated that , and suggested that Armageddon could be finished by then.
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1976
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". 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 .
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1977
The founder of the predicted this year for Armageddon to occur.
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This Christian minister predicted the Rapture would occur no later than 1977.
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17 Feb 1979
Thériault, who called himself Moïse (Moses), led a commune in the wilderness of eastern Quebec in the late seventies. Formerly a , he told his group they would form the center of a new society during God's 1000 year reign following Armageddon.
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1980
In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear disaster in 1980, followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in being established on Earth.
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1981
The founder of 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."
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Apr–Jun 1982
Tara Centers
Full-page ads in many newspapers April 24 and 25, 1982, stated that "The Christ is Now Here!" and that he would make himself known "within the next two months".
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10 Mar 1982
, Stephen Plagemann
Gribbin, an astrophysicist, co-authored the 1974 book The Jupiter Effect which predicted that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the .
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