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This page details dates when the world was, or is, forecast to end.

Date Author Event Article
400 Martin of Tours Stated that the world would end before 400.[1]
April 6, 793 Beatus of Liébana The Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana prophesied the second coming of Christ and the end of the world that day to a crowd of people. The crowd thinking that the world would end, fasted through the night. The following morning, Hordonius, one of the fasters, said, "Let's eat and drink, so that if we die at least we'll be fed."
1284 Pope Innocent III Pope Innocent III predicted that the world would end following 666 years of the rise of Islam.[1]
1689 Benjamin Keach
October 16, 1736 William Whiston Comet colliding with the earth.[2]
1792 The Shakers
1806 The Prophet Hen of Leeds In Leeds, England in 1806 a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" written on the eggs.[3] Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The hoaxster had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink so to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen.[4] The Prophet Hen of Leeds
1843-1844 William Miller Miller predicted Christ would return between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture, to October 22, 1844. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in a Great Disappointment. Miller's theology gave rise to the Advent movement. The Baha'is believe that Christ did return as Miller predicted in 1844, with the advent of The Báb, and numerous Miller-like prophetic predictions from many religions are given in William Sears book, Thief in The Night.[5]
1867-1875 Rev. Michael Baxter Forty 'Wonders' occurring in the following seven years and seventy-five days including wars, famine, pestilence and earthquakes culminating in the return of Christ in 1875.[6]
1919 Albert Porta Alignment of planets causing the sun to explode.[2]
December 21, 1954 Dorothy Martin Martin, a housewife from Chicago claimed to have received messages from aliens via automatic writing which stated that the world would end in a great flood before dawn on December 21, 1954.[7] When Prophecy Fails
Summer of 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. Helter Skelter (Manson scenario)
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.[8]
1980s,2000 Hal Lindsey Lindsey has been continually predicting the end of the world since his 1970 book The Late, Great Planet Earth. His later books including The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon and Planet Earth 2000 A.D.: Will Mankind Survive? gave revised dates.
1982, 2000s Pat Robertson In late 1976, Robertson predicted that the end of the world was coming in October or November 1982. He also predicted various cataclysmic events for the first decade of the current century such as a Pacific Northwest tsunami "[9] and a Middle East war involving Russia[10] that did not come to pass. Pat Robertson
April 23, 1990 Elizabeth Clare Prophet Prophet predicted an impending nuclear holocaust, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with supplies and weapons. Later, after Prophet's prediction did not come to pass and she was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease, the group's leadership attempted to draw the focus of its work away from doomsday predictions.[11][12] The Summit Lighthouse
June 9, 1994 Pastor John Hinkle Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted the return of Christ this day.[13]
September 6, 1994 Harold Camping Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on this date.[13]
January 1, 2000 Various "Y2K" Computers predicted to stop working, leading to failures of the electrical grid, dams, nuclear warheads, and everything else with a computer in it. Year 2000 problem
January 1, 2000 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.[14] Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
May 5, 2000 Richard Noone In his book 5/5/2000 - Ice:The Ultimate Disaster, Noone predicts that the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn would align for the first time in 6000 years. This would cause a catastrophic build up of ice at the South pole leading to devastation across the planet.[15] Cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis
August 2007 Thomas Chase
October 21, 2011 Harold Camping Camping predicted that the Rapture will occur on May 21, 2011 with God taking approximately 3% of the world's populations (200 million people) into Heaven. The actual end of the world is predicted to occur five months later.[16] 2011 end times prediction
December 21, 2012 Various Several scenarios for the end of the world including galactic alignment, a geomagnetic reversal, a collision with Planet Nibiru or some other interplanetary object, alien invasion, earth being destroyed by a giant supernova. 2012 theories
2060 Sir Isaac Newton Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060.[17][18]

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b Lazarus, William P; Sullivan, Mark (2008). Comparative Religion for Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 237. ISBN 978-0470230657.
  2. ^ a b Modeen, Marvin. Marvin Modeen. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-615-16500-4. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Text "tilt-god & Other Metaphors" ignored (help)
  3. ^ "10 failed doomsday predictions". Retrieved 2009-11-12. History has countless examples of people who have proclaimed that the return of Jesus Christ is imminent, but perhaps there has never been a stranger messenger than a hen in the English town of Leeds in 1806. It seems that a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written. As news of this miracle spread, many people became convinced that doomsday was at hand — until a curious local actually watched the hen laying one of the prophetic eggs and discovered someone had hatched a hoax.
  4. ^ Charles Mackay (1980). Extraordinary popular delusions & the madness of crowds. Random House. ISBN 051788433X. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/085398008X
  6. ^ Baxter, Michael (1867). Coming wonders expected between 1867 and 1875. JB Lippincott & Co.
  7. ^ Dorothy Martin left Chicago after being threatened with arrest and psychiatric commitment. She later founded the Association of Sananda and Samat Kumara. Under the name "Sister Thedra", she continued "channeling" and participating in UFO contact groups until her death in 1992. The Association is still active. See http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2008/07/after-the-prophecy.html
  8. ^ Stone 2000, p. 269
  9. ^ "God is warning of big storms, Robertson says", May 19, 2006, The Associated Press.
  10. ^ "Robertson predicts Mideast disaster and nuclear strikes on America during or shortly after American Election". Patrobertson.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  11. ^ James, Boyett (2005). Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse. Relevant Media Group. pp. 30, 33, 53–56, 67, 70, 139, 150–151. ISBN 0976035715.
  12. ^ Snow, Robert L. (2003). Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers. Praeger/Greenwood. pp. 70, 79, 108, 111. ISBN 0275980529.
  13. ^ a b Nelson, Chris (18 June 2002). "A Brief History of the Apocalypse; 1971 - 1997: Millennial Madness". Retrieved 23 June 2007.
  14. ^ Uganda Survivor Tells of Questions When World Didn't End Ian Fisher New York Times April 3, 2000
  15. ^ Noone, Richard W. (May 20, 1997). 5/5/2000, ICE: The Ultimate Disaster. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-60980-067-1. Preface, Table of Contents, Appendices.
  16. ^ "Judgment Day". Familyradio.com. Retrieved 2010-11-29.
  17. ^ This is London Ltd. (22 August 2007). "The world will end in 2060, according to Newton". Retrieved 22 August 2007.
  18. ^ Stephen D. Snobelen. "Isaac Newton and Apocalypse Now". Retrieved 22 August 2007.

Stone, Jon R. (ed) (2000), Expecting Armageddon, Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy, New York: Routledge, pp. 269–282, ISBN 0-415-92331-x {{citation}}: |first= has generic name (help); Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)

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