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    Many cultures and many people have predicted when the end of the world will come about. They also tell of how it will happen and what signs will appear warn us all. Under this topic we will discuss these many different predictions. ...
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    Date: May 13, 2004 - 12:19

    This is the chronological list of End of the World predictions from Anomalies. The actual predictions are listed in this manner:


    Date of End - Nature of End Predictor(s)
    Source


    Note that, in the list, if the predictor gave no particular details about how they thought the world would end, I simply listed the Nature of End as "End of the World". I hope that's pretty clear... and now, the list.

    1 A.D. ~ 100 A.D. - Judgement Day New Testament
    Jesus told his apostles that the Kingdom of God would come to Earth before the last of them died... Matthew 16:28, Mark 8:39, and Luke 9:27.
    Randi 1995:257-258, Bible

    992 - Judgement Day Bernard of Thuringia
    Randi 1995:258

    1000, Jan - Second Coming ?
    Rubinsky 1982:64-65, Mackay 1841:257, Randi 1995:258

    1033 - Second Coming Raoul Glaber
    Rubinsky 1982:66-67, Randi 1995:258

    1186, Sep - Astrological Alignment John of Toledo
    Randi 1995:258-259

    1260 - Judgement Day Monk Joachim and the Joachites
    Rubinsky 1982:77-80, Randi 1995:259

    1265 - Judgement Day Prestor John
    Rubinsky 1982:84

    1345 - Judgement Day ?
    Mackay 1841:258

    1350 - Judgement Day ?
    Mackay 1841:258

    1381 - Judgement Day The Peasants' Revolt
    Rubinsky 1982:84

    1420 - Judgement Day The Taborites
    Rubinsky 1982:88

    1524, Feb 1 - Second Great Flood Astrologers, various
    Randi 1995:259

    1524, Feb 20 - Second Great Flood Johannes Stoeffler
    Randi 1995:259-260

    1528 - Second Great Flood Johannes Stoeffler
    Randi 1995:260

    1532 - End of the World Frederick Nausea
    Randi 1995:260

    1533 - Judgement Day Melchior Hoffmann
    Randi 1995:260-261

    1533, Oct 3, 8 a.m. - Judgement Day Michael Stifel/Stifelius
    Randi 1995:260

    1534 - Judgement Day Matthysz
    Randi 1995:261

    1537 - Judgement Day Pierre Turrel
    Randi 1995:261

    1544 - Judgement Day Pierre Turrel
    Randi 1995:261

    1584 - End of the World Cyprian Leowitz
    Randi 1995:261

    1588 - End of the World Johann Muller/Regiomontanus
    Randi 1995:261-262

    1624, Feb 1 - Second Great Flood Astrologers, various
    Randi 1995:258

    1648 - Second Coming Rabbi Sabbati Zevi
    Randi 1995:262

    1654 - End of the World Helisaeus Roeslin of Alsace
    Randi 1995:262

    1654, Aug 12 - End of the World ?
    Randi 1995:262

    1656 - Judgement Day Columbus
    Yes, the same guy credited with finding the Americas for Spain.
    Rubinsky 1982:91

    1657 - Judgement Day The Fifth Monarchy Men
    Rubinsky 1982:93

    1665 - End of the World Solomon Eccles
    Randi 1995:262

    1666 - Second Coming Rabbi Sabbati Zevi
    Randi 1995:262

    1704 - End of the World Cardinal Nicholas de Cusa
    Randi 1995:263

    1719, May 19 - Comet Collision Jacques Bernoulli
    Randi 1995:263

    1736, Oct. 13 - Judgement Day Whiston
    Mackay 1841:258-259, Randi 1995:263

    1757 - End of the World Emanuel Swedenborg
    Randi 1995:263

    1761, April 5 - Judgement Day William Bell
    Rubinsky 1982:110, Mackay 1841:259, Randi 1995:263

    1774 - Second Coming Joanna Southcott
    Randi 1995:263-264

    1801 - Judgement Day Pierre Turrel
    Randi 1995:261

    1806 - Second Coming Chicken Egg
    Rubinsky 1982:113, Mackay 1841:260

    1814 - Judgement Day Pierre Turrel
    Randi 1995:261

    1832 - Comet Collision Scientific Guess
    Mackay 1841:258

    1843, April 3 - Judgement Day William Miller
    Rubinsky 1982:115, RD 1976:516, Randi 1995:264

    1843, July 7 - Judgement Day William Miller
    Rubinsky 1982:115, Randi 1995:264

    1844, March 21 - Judgement Day William Miller
    Rubinsky 1982:115, RD 1976:516, Randi 1995:264

    1844, Oct. 22 - Judgement Day William Miller
    Rubinsky 1982:115, RD 1976:516, Randi 1995:264

    1874 - End of the World Charles Taze Russell
    ANOMALIES Note: This date appears to be an error on James Randi's part. This is in fact the date on which Charles Taze Russell made a prediction, not a date he predicted. It was on this day that Russell predicted that Jesus would return to Earth in the year 1914.
    Randi 1995:265

    1881 - End of the World ?
    This was based on measurements made of the Pyramids of Giza, with the belief that they hold an encoded future history.
    Randi 1995:265

    1881 - End of the World Mother Shipton
    Randi 1995:265

    1890 - New World Begins The Ghost Dance Movement
    Rubinsky 1982:107

    1914 - Judgement Day Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses
    Branch 1998, Rubinsky 1982:118, Randi 1995:265

    1918 - Judgement Day Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses
    Branch 1998

    1920 - Second Coming Col. J. Garnier
    Gardner 1952:157

    1920, Feb. - Judgement Day Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses
    Branch 1998

    1925 - Judgement Day Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses
    Branch 1998

    1936 - End of the World ?
    This was based on measurements made of the Pyramids of Giza, with the belief that they hold an encoded future history.
    Randi 1995:265

    1941 - Judgement Day Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses
    Branch 1998

    1947 - End of the World John Ballou
    Randi 1995:265-266

    1948 - Judgement Day Millerites
    Watanabe 1999b

    1953 - End of the World ?
    This was based on measurements made of the Pyramids of Giza, with the belief that they hold an encoded future history.
    Randi 1995:265

    1972 - Judgement Day Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses
    Branch 1998

    1975 - Second Coming Herbert Armstrong/Worldwide Church of God
    Watanabe 1999b

    1975 - Judgement Day Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses
    Branch 1998, Randi 1995:265

    1977 - End of the World John Wroe
    Randi 1995:266

    1980, Dec 31 - End of the World Old Arabic astronomical calculation
    Randi 1995:267

    1982, Mar 10 - Harmonic alignment ?
    The idea was that when all the planets in the solar system lined up just right, the resulting gravitational stresses would devestate the Earth.
    Rubinsky 1982:148-149, Randi 1995:266

    1986 - World War III? Nostradamus
    Cheetham 1973:88,91

    1989 - Judgement Day Implied (accidently?) by Watchtower/Jehovah's Witnesses
    In an 1988 issue of Awake! magazine published by Watchtower, which had the question "Are We In The Last Days?" on the cover, an article discussing the long held belief that the end would come within the lifespan of those followers who were alive in 1914 mentioned that 75 years was generally considered a normal lifespan... 1914 + 75 = 1989.
    Branch 1998, Williamson 1999

    1992 - Judgement Day Korean Christian prediction
    AP 1995 Apr. 16

    1994, September - Judgement Day Harold Camping, Family Radio Network
    Macklin 1994

    1994, Oct. 2 - Judgement Day Harold Camping, Family Radio Network
    Macklin 1994

    1995, April 16 - Judgement Day Korean Christian prediction
    AP 1995 Apr. 16

    1996 - End of the World ?
    Randi 1995:267

    1999, July - Antichrist Nostradamus
    Rubinsky 1982:89, RD 1976:515, Randi 1995:267

    2000 - World War III and Antichrist Nostradamus
    Cheetham 1973:417

    2000, Jan 1 - 2000/1900 date error in computers American Mass Media
    Watanabe 1999a, 1999b

    2002, June 21 - Second Coming Nostradamus
    Rubinsky 1982:89

    2100 - Environmental Crash ?
    Rubinsky 1982:148



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