List of religious end times/Second coming of Jesus predictions

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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.
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365
Hilary of Poitiers
This early French bishop announced the end of the world would happen during this year.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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800
Sextus Julius Africanus
This Christian historian revised his prediction from the year 500 to 800.
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799–806
Gregory of Tours
This French bishop calculated the end would occur between 799 and 806.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1200–1260
Joachim of Fiore
This Italian mystic determined that the Millennium would begin between 1200 and 1260.
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1284
Pope Innocent III
Pope Innocent III (died 1216) predicted that the world would end 666 years after the rise of Islam.
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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.
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1346–1351
Various Europeans
The Black Death spreading across Europe was interpreted by many as the sign of the end of times.
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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.
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1378
Arnaldus de Villa Nova
This Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was to come during this year.
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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.
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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.
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20 Feb 1524
Johannes Stöffler
A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen by this astrologer as a sign of the Millennium.
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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.
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27 May 1528
Hans Hut
This German Anabaptist predicted the end would occur on this date.
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1528
Johannes Stöffler
A revised date from Stöffler after his 1524 prediction failed to come true.
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19 Oct 1533
Michael Stifel
This mathematician calculated that Judgement Day would begin at 8:00 am on this day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1588
Regiomontanus
This mathematician and astronomer predicted the end of the world during this year.
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1600
Martin Luther
Luther, a German priest and professor of theology, predicted the end of the world would occur no later than 1600.
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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.
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1648
Sabbatai Zevi
Using the kabbalah, this rabbi from Turkey proclaimed that the Messiah would come during that year.
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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.
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1656
Christopher Columbus
In his Book of Prophecies (1501), Columbus predicted that the world would end during this year.
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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.
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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.
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1660
Joseph Mede
Mede claimed that the Antichrist had appeared in 456, and the end would come in 1660.
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1666
Sabbatai Zevi
Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth for this year.
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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.
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1673
William Aspinwall
This Fifth Monarchist claimed the Millennium would begin by this year.
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1688
John Napier
This mathematician calculated the end of the world would be this year based on calculations from the Book of Revelation.
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1689
Pierre Jurieu
This prophet predicted that Judgement Day would occur this year.
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1694
John Mason
This Anglican priest predicted the Millennium would begin by this year.
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Johann Heinrich Alsted
This Calvinist minister predicted the Millennium would begin by this year.
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Johann Jacob Zimmermann
Believed that Jesus would return and the world would end this year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1705–1708
Camisards
Camisard prophets predicted the end of the world would occur in either 1705, 1706 or 1708.
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1716
Cotton Mather
Revised prediction from Mather after his 1697 prediction failed to come true.
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5 Apr 1719
Jacob Bernoulli
This mathematician predicted a comet would destroy the Earth on this day.
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1700–1734
Nicholas of Cusa
This cardinal predicted the end would occur between 1700 and 1734.
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16 Oct 1736
William Whiston
This theologian predicted a comet colliding with the Earth this year.
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1736
Cotton Mather
Mather's third and final prediction for the end of the world.
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1757
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedenborg, a former Lutheran, claimed that the Last Judgement occurred in the spiritual world this year.
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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.
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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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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
John Gribbin, 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 San Andreas Fault.
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21 Jun 1982
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.
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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.
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1985
Lester Sumrall
This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it entitled I Predict 1985.
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29 Apr 1986
Leland Jensen
Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on this day, causing widespread destruction.
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17 Aug 1987
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.
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11–13 Sep 1988
3 Oct 1988
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 and 13, 1988. After his September predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to October 3.
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30 Sep 1989
Edgar C. Whisenant
After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to this day.
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23 Apr 1990
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.
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9 Sep 1991
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the Jewish New Year.
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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."
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28 Sep 1992
Rollen Stewart
This born-again Christian predicted the Rapture would take place on this day.
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28 Oct 1992
Lee Jang Rim
Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission church, predicted the rapture would occur on this day.
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1993
David Berg
Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993.
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2 May 1994
Neal Chase
This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that New York City would be destroyed by a nuclear bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days later.
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6 Sep 1994
29 Sep 1994
2 Oct 1994
Harold Camping
Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on 6 September 1994. When it failed to occur he revised the date to the 29th of September and then to the 2nd October.
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31 Mar 1995
Harold Camping
Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011.
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17 Dec 1996
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.
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26 Mar 1997
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.
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10 Aug 1997
Aggai
The 1st-century bishop of Edessa predicted this date to be the birth date of the Antichrist and the end of the universe.
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23 Oct 1997
James Ussher
This 17th-century Irish archbishop predicted this date to be 6000 years since creation, and therefore the end of the world.
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31 Mar 1998
Hon-Ming Chen
Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult Chen Tao – "The True Way" – claimed that God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date.
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Jul 1999
Nostradamus
A quatrain by Nostradamus which stated the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" was frequently interpreted as a prediction of doomsday in July 1999.
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18 Aug 1999
The Amazing Criswell
The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for predictions.
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11 Sep 1999
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."
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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.
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Hon-Ming Chen
The leader of the cult Chen Tao preached that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe and Asia in 1999.
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James Gordon Lindsay
This preacher predicted the great tribulation would begin before 2000.
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Timothy Dwight IV
This 19th century president of Yale University foresaw Christ's Millennium starting by 2000.
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Nazim Al-Haqqani
This Sufi Muslim sheikh predicted that the Last Judgmentwould occur before 2000.
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1 Jan 2000
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.
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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.
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Jerry Falwell
Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on this day.
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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.
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6 Apr 2000
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.
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5 May 2000
Nuwaubian Nation
This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust", pulling the planets toward the Sun on this day.
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2000
Peter Olivi
This 13th-century theologian wrote that the Antichrist would come to power between 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgement would take place around 2000.
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Ruth Montgomery
This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.
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Edgar Cayce
This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.
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Sun Myung Moon
The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year.
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Ed Dobson
This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.
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Lester Sumrall
This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000.
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Jonathan Edwards
This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year.
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2001
Tynnetta Muhammad
This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year.
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27 May 2003
Nancy Lieder
Lieder originally predicted the date for the Nibiru collisionas 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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30 Oct–Nov 29 2003
Aum Shinrikyo
This Japanese cult, which carried out the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995, predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between 30 October and 29 November 2003.
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12 Sep 2006
House of Yahweh
Yisrayl Hawkins, pastor and overseer of The House of Yahweh, predicted in his February 2006 newsletter that a nuclear war would begin on September 12, 2006.
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29 Apr 2007
Pat Robertson
In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction.
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May 2008
Pyotr Kuznetsov
Followers of Kuznetsov, 31 adults and 4 children (one 18 months old), went into a cave in Russia in November 2007 thinking they would be safe from an apocalypse occurring in the spring. Kuzentsov did not join them, was later committed and attempted suicide when some had left the cave in the spring. By the time all the followers had left the cave in the spring, two adults had died.
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2010
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
This magical organization, which existed from 1887 to 1903, predicted the world would end during this year.
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21 May 2011
Harold Camping
Camping predicted that the Rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on 21 May 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.
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29 Sep 2011
Ronald Weinland
Weinland, the founder of the Church of God Preparing for the Kingdom of God, stated Jesus would return on this day. After his prophecy failed to come true he changed the date to 27 May 2012.
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21 Oct 2011
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 21 October 2011.
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Aug–Oct 2011
Various
There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenintravelling 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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27 May 2012
Ronald Weinland
Weinland's revised date for the return of Jesus following the failure of his 2011 prediction.
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30 Jun 2012
José Luis de Jesús
This cult leader 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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21 Dec 2012
Various
The 2012 phenomenon predicted the world would end 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. Scientists from NASA, along with expert archeologists, stated that none of those events was possible.
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23 Aug 2013
Grigori Rasputin
Rasputin, a Russian mystic who died in 1916, prophesied a storm would take place on this day where fire would destroy most life on land and Jesus would come back to Earth to comfort those in distress.
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Apr 2014–Sep 2015
John Hagee, 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 claim that the tetrad in 2014 and 2015 may represent the beginning of the Messianic end times. Some Mormons in Utah combined the September 2015 blood moon with other signs, causing a large increase in sales of preppers survival supplies.
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23 Sep–15 Oct 2017
David Meade
Conspiracy theorist David Meade predicted that Nibiru would become visible in the sky and would "soon" destroy the Earth.
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23 Apr 2018
David Meade
After his 2017 prediction failed, Meade predicted the rapture would take place and that the world would end on this date.
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Future predictions[edit]
Date (CE)
Claimant(s)
Description
Ref.
9 Jun 2019
Ronald Weinland
Weinland, who previously predicted the world would end in 2011, 2012, and then 2013, predicted in 2018 that Jesus will return on June 9, 2019. He has since expressed some doubts regarding his own prediction.
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2020
Jeane Dixon
Dixon predicted that Armageddon would take place in 2020. She previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962.
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2021
F. Kenton Beshore
This American pastor bases his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus would return in 1988, i.e., within one biblical generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80 years, placing the second coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028 and the rapture by 2021 at the latest.
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2026
Messiah Foundation International
This spiritual organisation predicts that the world will end in 2026, when an asteroid collides with Earth in accordance with Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi's predictions in his book The Religion of God.
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2129
Said Nursî
According to abjad interpretation of a hadith, this Sunni Muslim theologian wrote the Risale-i Nur Collection, which expects the end in 2129.
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2239
Talmud, Orthodox Judaism
According to the Talmud in mainstream Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah will come within 6000 years of the creation of Adam, and the world may be destroyed 1000 years later. This would put the beginning of the period of desolation in 2239 CE and the end of the period of desolation in 3239 CE.
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2280
Rashad Khalifa
According to this Egyptian-American biochemist's research on the Quran, the world will end during that year.

[Angrboda]

[arewethereyet]

tl;dr

Was there a purpose for the thread?

If so, can someone cull it out the wall of text and let me know?

[Gwaithmir]

That list needs updating.

The Jehovah's Witnesses predicted the End Times twice in my lifetime. And, of course, I'm sure everyone remembers Harold Camping's predictions.

[purplepurpose]

tl;dr

Was there a purpose for the thread?

If so, can someone cull it out the wall of text and let me know?

Lying is ok, if your on God side. That's what this list shows. God inspired visions and revelations of end times turned out to be fake.

[Angrboda]

tl;dr

Was there a purpose for the thread?

If so, can someone cull it out the wall of text and let me know?

Lying is ok, if your on God side. That's what this list shows.

I don't think so, but I'm in a no fly zone at the moment and perhaps the planes simply haven't yet arrived.

[GrandizerII]

Should've used the spoiler tag, man.

[Minimalist]

Muchas gracias, P/P.

Was there a purpose for the thread?

If so, can someone cull it out the wall of text and let me know?

Xhristards are full of shit.  Not exactly news but always deserving of a reminder.