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Many Romans feared that the city would be destroyed in the 120th year of
its founding. There was a myth that 12 eagles had revealed to Romulus a
mystical number representing the lifetime of Rome, and some early
Romans hypothesized that each eagle represented 10 years.
Sextus Julius Africanus revised the date of Doomsday to 800.
The Millennium Apocalypse at the end of the Christian Millennium. Various
Christian clerics predicted the end of the world on this date, including Pope
Sylvester II. Riots occurred in Europe and pilgrims headed east to
Jerusalem.
Predicted the end of the world during 1186, based on the alignment of
many planets.
Pope Innocent III predicted that the world would end 666 years after the
rise of Islam.
One mathematician calculated that the Judgement Day would begin at
8:00am on this day.
The so-called Mayan apocalypse. The Earth would be destroyed by
an asteroid, an alien invasion or a supernova.
According to Rashad Khalifa's research on the Quran Code, the world will
end in this year.
The heat death of the universe is a suggested ultimate fate of the universe