List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

Predictions of apocalyptic events that would result in

the extinction of humanity, a collapse of civilization, or
the destruction of the planet have been made since at
least the beginning of the Common Era.[1] Most
predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, often
standing for or similar to the eschatological events
described in their scriptures. Christian predictions
typically refer to events like the rapture, the Great
Tribulation, the Last Judgment, and the Second
Coming of Christ. Many religious-related end-time
events are predicted to occur within the lifetime of the
person making the prediction, who often quote the The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In
Bible, and in particular the New Testament, as either Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an
the primary or exclusive source for the predictions. [1] apocalyptic event where God makes a final
Often this takes the form of mathematical calculations, judgement of all people on Earth.
such as trying to calculate the point where it will have
been 6000 years since the supposed creation of the
Earth by the Abrahamic God,[2] which according to the Talmud marks the deadline for the Messiah to
appear.[3] Predictions of the end from natural events have also been theorised by various scientists and
scientific groups. While these disasters are generally accepted within the scientific community as plausible
"end of the world" scenarios, the events and phenomena are not expected to occur for hundreds of
thousands or even billions of years from now.

Little research has been done into why people make apocalyptic predictions.[4] Historically, it has been
done for reasons such as diverting attention from actual crises like poverty and war, pushing political
agendas, and promoting hatred of certain groups; antisemitism was a popular theme of Christian
apocalyptic predictions in medieval times,[5] while French and Lutheran depictions of the apocalypse were
known to feature English and Catholic antagonists respectively.[6] According to psychologists, possible
explanations for why people believe in modern apocalyptic predictions include mentally reducing the actual
danger in the world to a single and definable source, an innate human fascination with fear, personality
traits of paranoia and powerlessness and a modern romanticism involved with end-times due to its portrayal
in contemporary fiction.[4][7] The prevalence of Abrahamic religions throughout modern history is said to
have created a culture which encourages the embracement of a future that will be drastically different from
the present.[1][8] Such a culture is credited with the rise in popularity of predictions that are more secular in
nature, such as the 2012 phenomenon, while maintaining the centuries-old theme that a powerful force will
bring the end of humanity.[8]

Polls conducted in 2012 across 20 countries found over 14% of people believe the world will end in their
lifetime, with percentages ranging from 6% of people in France to 22% in the US and Turkey. Belief in the
apocalypse is observed to be most prevalent in people with lower rates of education, lower household
incomes, and those under the age of 35.[9][10] In the UK in 2015, 23% of the general public believed the
apocalypse was likely to occur in their lifetime, compared to 10% of experts from the Global Challenges
Foundation. The general public believed the likeliest cause would be nuclear war, while experts thought it
would be artificial intelligence. Only 3% of Britons thought the end would be caused by the Last
Judgement, compared to 16% of Americans. Between one and three percent of people from both countries
said the apocalypse would be caused by zombies or alien invasion.[11][12][13]

Contents
Past predictions
First millennium CE
11th–15th centuries
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
21st century
Future predictions
21st century
22nd–23rd centuries
Far future predictions
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

Past predictions

First millennium CE
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
Simon bar The Jewish Essene sect of ascetics saw the Jewish uprising against the
Giora, Romans in 66–70 in Judea as the final end-time battle which would bring about [14]
66–70 [15]
Jewish the arrival of the Messiah. By the authority of Simon, coins were minted
Essenes declaring the redemption of Israel.
Hilary of This early French bishop announced the end of the world would happen during [16]
365
Poitiers this year.
This French bishop stated that the world would end before 400 AD, writing,
375– Martin of "There is no doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. Firmly established [17]
400 Tours already in his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, achieve supreme [18]
power."
This bishop of Aquae Flaviae (modern Chaves, Portugal) wrote his chronicle (c.
27 May 469) in his firm belief that humanity was living in the end times, marching [19]
Hydatius
482 towards its certain doom on this day, when Jesus would come back and the
world would end.
Hippolytus of
Rome,
Sextus All three predicted Jesus would return in this year, with one of the predictions [20]
500 [21]
Julius being based on the dimensions of Noah's Ark.
Africanus,
Irenaeus
6 Apr Beatus of This Spanish monk prophesied the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the [20]
793 Liébana world on that day in front of a large crowd of people.
Sextus
800 Julius This Christian historian revised his prediction from the year 500 to 800. [22]
Africanus
799– Gregory of [23]
This French bishop calculated the end would occur between 799 and 806.
806 Tours

This Christian declared in 847 that the world would end that year, though later [24]
847 Thiota [25]
confessed the prediction was fraudulent and was publicly flogged.

Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been
992– Various [26]
believed to be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-
995 Christians
times, within three years.
According to several sources, various Christian clerics predicted this date as [27]
Pope
the Millennium, including Pope Sylvester II. As a result, riots are said to have [28]
1000 Sylvester II
occurred in Europe and pilgrims headed east to Jerusalem. Other historians,
and others [29]
however, have disputed that any of these events ever took place.

11th–15th centuries
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
Following the failure of the prediction for 1 January 1000, some theorists [20]
Various
1033 proposed that the end would occur 1000 years after Jesus' death, instead of his [30]
Christians
birth.
1200– Joachim of This Italian mystic determined that the Millennium would begin between 1200 [31]
1260 Fiore and 1260.
Pope Pope Innocent III (died 1216) predicted that the world would end 666 years after [17]
1284
Innocent III the rise of Islam in 618.
1290 After his 1260 prediction failed, the followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled [32]
Joachimites
1335 the end of the world to 1290 and then again to 1335.

1346– Various The Black Death spreading across Europe was interpreted by many as the sign [33]
1351 Europeans of the end of times. [34]

1368– Jean de This French alchemist predicted the Antichrist was to come in 1366 and the [35]
1370 Roquetaillade Millennium would begin either in 1368 or 1370.
Arnaldus de [36]
1378 This Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was to come during this year.
Villa Nova

16th century
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
This painter believed he was living during the Tribulation, and that the
Sandro Millennium would begin in three and a half years from 1500. He wrote into his [37]
1504 [38]
Botticelli painting The Mystical Nativity that the Devil was loose and would soon be
chained.
A group of astrologers in London predicted the world would end by a flood
1 Feb London starting in London, based on calculations made the previous June. Twenty [39]
1524 astrologers thousand Londoners left their homes and headed for higher ground in [40]
anticipation.
20 Feb Johannes A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen by this astrologer as a sign of the [39]
1524 Stöffler Millennium.
1525 would mark the beginning of the Millennium, according to this [30]
Thomas
1525 Anabaptist. His followers were killed by cannon fire in an uneven battle with [41]
Müntzer
government troops. He died under torture and was beheaded.
27 May [42]
Hans Hut This German Anabaptist predicted the end would occur on this date.
1528
Johannes [43]
1528 A revised date from Stöffler after his 1524 prediction failed to come true.
Stöffler
19 Oct This mathematician calculated that Judgement Day would begin at 8:00 am [44]
Michael Stifel
1533 on this date.
This Anabaptist prophet predicted Christ's Second Coming to take place this
Melchior [45]
1533 year in Strasbourg. He claimed that 144,000 people would be saved, while the
Hoffman
rest of the world would be consumed by fire.
During the Münster rebellion, this Anabaptist leader declared that the
5 Apr [46]
Jan Matthys apocalypse would take place on this date. When the day came he led a failed
1534
attack against Franz von Waldeck and was decapitated.
Around 1400, this French theologian wrote that 6845 years of human history [47]
1555 Pierre d'Ailly
had already passed, and the end of the world would be in the 7000th year.
In his book The Restoration of Christianity, the Spanish born reformer claimed
Michael [48]
1585 that the Devil's reign in this world had started in 325 AD, at the Council of
Servetus
Nicea, and would last for 1260 years, thus ending in 1585.
This mathematician and astronomer predicted the end of the world during this [49]
1588 Regiomontanus
year.
Luther, a German priest and professor of theology known for starting the
1600 Martin Luther Protestant Reformation, predicted the end of the world would occur no later [50]
than 1600.

17th century
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)

1 Feb London The same astrologers who predicted the deluge of 1 February 1524 recalculated [39]
1624 astrologers the date to 100 years later after their first prophecy failed. [40]

Sabbatai Using the kabbalah proclaimed that the Messiah would come during that year. [49]
1648
Zevi Later claimed to be the Messiah in 1666-7
Unknown
author from The apocalypse maps tell of an Antichrist, the rise of Islam and other events [51]
1651
Lübeck, following Judgement Day that was predicted to occur in 1651.
Germany
Helisaeus This physician made a prediction that the world would end this year based on a [52]
1654
Roeslin nova that occurred in 1572.

Christopher In his Book of Prophecies (1501), Columbus predicted that the world would end [53]
1656 [54]
Columbus during this year.

1655– Fifth This group of radical Christians predicted that the final apocalyptic battle and [55]
1657 Monarchists the destruction of the Antichrist were to take place between 1655 and 1657.
Christopher Columbus claimed that the world was created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 [56]
1658
Columbus years. Assuming no year zero, that means the end would come in 1658.
Joseph Mede claimed that the Antichrist had appeared in 456, and the end would come [57]
1660
Mede in 1660.
Sabbatai Following his failed prediction of 1648, Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth for [49]
Zevi this year.
1666 The presence of 666 in the date, the death of 100,000 Londoners to bubonic
Fifth [58]
plague, and the Great Fire of London led to superstitious fears of the end of the [59]
Monarchists
world from some Christians.
William [60]
1673 This Fifth Monarchist claimed the Millennium would begin by this year.
Aspinwall
This mathematician calculated the end of the world would be this year based on [61]
1688 John Napier
calculations from the Book of Revelation.

1689 Pierre Jurieu This prophet predicted that Judgement Day would occur this year. [62]

John Mason This Anglican priest predicted the Millennium would begin by this year. [63]

Johann
Heinrich This Calvinist minister predicted the Millennium would begin by this year. [64]
1694 Alsted
Johann
Jacob Believed that Jesus would return and the world would end this year. [65]
Zimmermann
Cotton This Puritan minister predicted the world would end this year. After the [46]
1697
Mather prediction failed, he revised the date of the end two more times.
Following his 1688 prediction, Napier recalculated his end of the world prediction [66]
John Napier
to 1700 in A Plaine Discovery, a book published in 1593.
1700
In his 1642 work, The Personall Reigne of Christ Upon Earth, Archer predicted [67]
Henry Archer
the Second Coming of Jesus would occur in approximately this year.

18th century
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
1705– Camisard prophets predicted the end of the world would occur in either 1705, [62]
Camisards
1708 1706 or 1708.
Cotton [46]
1716 Revised prediction from Mather after his 1697 prediction failed to come true.
Mather
5 Apr Jacob [52]
This mathematician predicted a comet would destroy the Earth on this date.
1719 Bernoulli
1700– Nicholas of [68]
This cardinal predicted the end would occur between 1700 and 1734.
1734 Cusa
16 Oct William [69]
This theologian predicted a comet colliding with the Earth this year.
1736 Whiston
Cotton [46]
1736 Mather's third and final prediction for the end of the world.
Mather

Emanuel Swedenborg, a former Lutheran, claimed that the Last Judgement occurred in [70]
1757 [71]
Swedenborg the spiritual world this year.

20 May Various Based on a misunderstanding of a talk given by astronomer Jérôme Lalande [72]
1773 Parisians Parisians were convinced that a comet would destroy the world on this date.
Connecticut
General
The sky turning dark during the day was interpreted as a sign of the end times.
19 May Assembly [73]
The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of
1780 members,
smoke from forest fires, a thick fog, and cloud cover.
New
Englanders
The year 1789 would bring the coming of the Antichrist, according to this 14th- [74]
1789 Pierre d'Ailly
century cardinal.
1792 The Shakers, a Christian sect founded in 18th century England, predicted the [46]
Shakers
1794 world would end in 1792 and then in 1794.
Nathaniel
19 Nov While campaigning for Richard Brothers' release, Halhed proclaimed that the [75]
Brassey
1795 world would end on this date.
Halhed
1793– Richard This retired sailor stated the Millennium would begin between 1793 and 1795. [68]
1795 Brothers He was eventually committed to an insane asylum.

19th century
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
This Presbyterian minister predicted the destruction of the world by earthquake
Christopher [76]
1805 in 1805, followed by an age of everlasting peace when God would be known by
Love
all.
In Leeds, England, in 1806 a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ
Mary is coming" was written. Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The owner, [77]
1806 [78]
Bateman 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.
This 64-year-old self-described prophet claimed she was pregnant with the
19 Oct Joanna Christ child, and that he would be born on October 19, 1814. She died later that [79]
1814 Southcott year having not delivered a child, and an autopsy proved she had not been
pregnant.
Johann In the 1730s this Lutheran clergyman proclaimed that Judgment Day would
1836 Albrecht come in 1836, with the pope as the anti-Christ and the Freemasons representing [80]
Bengel the "false prophet" of Revelations.
Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning [77]
1836 John Wesley this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to 1058 to 1836, "when Christ [81]
should come".
28 Apr
1843 Although it was not officially endorsed by their leadership, many Millerites [82]
Millerites
31 Dec expected the Second Coming to occur on April 28 or at the end of 1843.
1843
Harriet [83]
1843 The first of two years this preacher predicted the world would end.
Livermore
21 Mar [84]
William Miller Miller, a Baptist preacher, predicted Christ would return on this date.
1844
After Christ did not return on 21 March 1844, the Millerites then revised William
22 Oct Miller's prediction to 22 October that year, claiming to have miscalculated [84]
Millerites [85]
1844 Scripture. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the
Great Disappointment.
7 Aug Rapp, the founder of the Harmony Society, preached that Jesus would return in [86]
George Rapp
1847 his lifetime, even as he lay dying on August 7, 1847.
Harriet [83]
1847 The second prediction of the end of the world from this preacher.
Livermore
John This Scottish clergyman stated it was 6000 years since creation in 1862, and [87]
Cumming that the world would end.
1862 Originally an English convert to Mormonism, Morris had revelations to gather
Joseph [88]
his followers and wait for the Second Coming, through successive prophesied
Morris
days.
The founder of the Christian Israelite Church calculated that the Millennium [79]
1863 John Wroe
would begin this year.
Wendell, along with other Adventist preachers, predicted the Second Coming of
Christ would occur in 1873 or 1874. In 1870, Wendell published his views in the [89]
1873– Jonas booklet entitled The Present Truth, or Meat in Due Season concluding that the [90]
1874 Wendell Second Advent was sure to occur in 1873. After the prediction did not bear out, [91]
Nelson H. Bardour reinterpreted the prediction holding that Jesus had in fact
returned in 1874 but in an invisible form.
This 15th-century prophet was quoted as saying "The world to an end shall
Mother
come, In eighteen hundred and eighty one" in a book published in 1862. In 1873 [92]
1881 Shipton
it was revealed to be a forgery; however, this did not stop some people from
(attrib.)
expecting the end.
1890 Wovoka The founder of the Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that the [93]
 Millennium would occur in 1890.

20th century
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
Catholic
This church, founded in 1831, claimed that Jesus would return by the time [94]
1901 Apostolic
the last of its 12 founding members died. The last member died in 1901.
Church
Flammarion predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet "would [85]
Camille
1910 impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet", but [95]
Flammarion
not the planet itself. "Comet pills" were sold to protect against toxic gases.
This pyramidologist concluded from his research on the dimensions of the
1892– Charles Piazzi [96]
Great Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would occur somewhere
1911 Smyth
between 1892 and 1911.
Russell, who founded the Bible Student movement, said "...the battle of the
Charles Taze great day of God Almighty... The date of the close of that 'battle' is definitely [97]
1914
Russell marked in Scripture as October 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning
dating from October, 1874."
This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in the British protectorate of [93]
1915 John Chilembwe
Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year.
International
"Christendom shall be cut off and glorification of the Little Flock (The [98]
1918 Bible Students
Church) in the Spring of 1918 A. D."
Association
In 1918, Christendom would go down as a system to oblivion and be
succeeded by revolutionary governments. God would "destroy the churches
International
wholesale and the church members by the millions." Church members would [99]
1920 Bible Students
"perish by the sword of war, revolution and anarchy." The dead would lie
Association
unburied. In 1920 all earthly governments would disappear, with worldwide
anarchy prevailing.
13 Feb According to this Seventh-Day Adventist, the angel Gabriel appeared before [100]
Margaret Rowen
1925 her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this date.
This British MP, who was one of the 12 apostles of the Catholic Apostolic
Spencer [101]
1926 Church, believed that the world was growing nearer to the Apocalypse due to
Perceval
what he viewed as the rampant immorality of the times in Europe.
Marks, an Australian MP, told the House of Representatives that [102]
1934 Walter Marks Armageddon would occur in 1934 and culminate with the Royal Navy bringing [103]
Christ's chosen people to Jerusalem.
Sep Wilbur Glenn This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear" [104]
1935 Voliva in September 1935.
The founder of the Worldwide Church of God told members of his church that
Herbert W. [105]
1936 the rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would be saved.
Armstrong
After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times.
Jehovah's A prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group which [106]
1941
Witnesses branched from the Bible Student movement.
Herbert W. The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction [105]
1943
Armstrong failed to come true.
John Ballou The author of Oahspe: A New Bible predicted the destruction of all nations [92]
1947
Newbrough and the beginning of post-apocalyptic anarchy in this year.
The world was to be destroyed by terrible flooding on this date, claimed this
21 Dec leader of a UFO cult called Brotherhood of the Seven Rays. The fallout of [107]
Dorothy Martin
1954 the group after the prediction failed was the basis for the 1956 book When
Prophecy Fails.
The leader of the Branch Davidians predicted the apocalypse foretold in the
22 Apr Florence Book of Revelation would proceed on this date. The failure of the prophecy [108]
1959 Houteff led to the split of the sect into several subsects, the most prominent led by
Benjamin and Lois Roden.
1951– Johann On December 25, 1951, Bischoff stated the Second Coming would occur [109]
1960 Gottfried before he died. He died on July 6, 1960.
Bischoff
Jeane Dixon, [110]
4 Feb Dixon predicted a planetary alignment on this date was to bring destruction
various Indian [111]
1962 to the world. Mass prayer meetings were held in India.
astrologers
This day would mark the beginning of the third woe of the Apocalypse, during
20 Aug George Van which the southeastern US would be destroyed by a Soviet nuclear attack, [112]
1967 Tassel according to this UFO prophet, who claimed to have channeled an alien
named Ashtar.
The founder of the People's Temple stated he had visions that a nuclear [113]
1967 Jim Jones
holocaust was to take place in 1967.
9 Aug The founder of the Church of the Firstborn predicted the Second Coming of [114]
George Williams
1969 Christ would occur on this date.
Manson predicted that Helter skelter, an apocalyptic race war, would occur in [115]
1969 Charles Manson
1969.
Herbert W. The second of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 and 1943 [105]
1972
Armstrong predictions failed to come true.
Jan Berg, the leader of Children of God, predicted that there would be a colossal [116]
David Berg
1974 doomsday event heralded by Comet Kohoutek.
Herbert W. [105]
Armstrong's fourth and final prediction.
Armstrong
1975 From 1966 on, Jehovah's Witnesses published articles which stated that the
Jehovah's [117]
fall of 1975 would be 6000 years since man's creation, and suggested that
Witnesses
Armageddon could be finished by then.
The Brahma Kumaris founder, Lekhraj Kirpalani, has made a number of
predictions of a global Armageddon which the religion believes it will inspire,
Brahma internally calling it "Destruction". During Destruction, Brahma Kumari leaders [118]
1976
Kumaris 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 India.
The founder of the Christian Israelite Church predicted this year for [92]
John Wroe
Armageddon to occur.
1977
William M. [119]
This Christian minister predicted the rapture would occur no later than 1977.
Branham
Thériault, who called himself Moïse (Moses), led a commune in the
17 Feb wilderness of eastern Quebec in the late seventies. Formerly a Seventh-Day [120]
Roch Thériault
1979 Adventist, he told his group they would form the center of a new society
during God's 1000-year reign following Armageddon.
In 1978 Jensen predicted that there would be a nuclear holocaust in 1980,
1980 Leland Jensen followed by two decades of conflict, culminating in God's Kingdom being [121]
established on Earth.
The founder of Calvary Chapel predicted the generation of 1948 would be the
last generation and that the world would end by 1981 at the latest. Smith [122]
1981 Chuck Smith identified that he "could be wrong" but continued to say in the same [123]
sentence that his prediction was "a deep conviction in my heart, and all my
plans are predicated upon that belief."
Gribbin, an astrophysicist, co-authored the 1974 book The Jupiter Effect
John Gribbin, [95]
10 Mar which predicted that combined gravitational forces of aligned planets would
Stephen [124]
1982 create a number of catastrophes, including a great earthquake on the San
Plagemann
Andreas Fault.
Creme took out an ad in the Los Angeles Times stating that the Second
21 Jun Benjamin [125]
Coming would occur in June 1982 with the Maitreya announcing it on
1982 Creme
worldwide television.
 In late 1976 on his 700 Club TV programme, Robertson predicted that the [126]
1982 Pat Robertson
end of the world would come in this year.
This minister predicted the end in this year, even writing a book about it [127]
1985 Lester Sumrall
entitled I Predict 1985.
29 Apr Jensen predicted that Halley's Comet would be pulled into Earth's orbit on [128]
Leland Jensen
1986 this date, causing widespread destruction.
Argüelles claimed that Armageddon would take place unless 144,000 people
17 Aug [129]
José Argüelles gathered in certain places across the world in order to "resonate in harmony"
1987
on this date.
Lindsey believed that Jesus would return within 40 years, a "biblical [130]
1988 Hal Lindsey
generation", of the founding of Israel in 1948.
11–13
Whisenant predicted in his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in
Sep
Edgar C. 1988 that the rapture of the Christian Church would occur between [131]
1988
Whisenant September 11 and 13, 1988. After his September predictions failed to come
3 Oct
true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to October 3.
1988
30 Sep Edgar C. After all his 1988 predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his [131]
1989 Whisenant prediction date to this day.
Prophet predicted a nuclear war would start on this date, with the world
23 Apr Elizabeth Clare ending 12 years later, leading her followers to stockpile a shelter with [132]
1990 Prophet supplies and weapons. Later, after Prophet's prediction did not come to pass, [133]
she was diagnosed with epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease.
Menachem
9 Sep This Russian-born rabbi called for the Messiah to come by the start of the [134]
Mendel
1991 Jewish New Year.
Schneerson
The leader of the Nation of Islam declared that the Gulf War would be the [135]
1991 Louis Farrakhan
"War of Armageddon which is the final war."
28 Sep [136]
Rollen Stewart This born-again Christian predicted the rapture would take place on this date.
1992
28 Oct Lee, the leader of the Dami Mission church, predicted the rapture would [137]
Lee Jang Rim
1992 occur on this date.
Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second [138]
1993 David Berg
Coming would take place in 1993.
This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that New York City would be destroyed by
2 May [139]
Neal Chase a nuclear bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would
1994
take place 40 days later.
6 Sep
1994
Camping predicted the rapture would occur on 6 September 1994. When it [140]
29 Sep
Harold Camping failed to occur he revised the date to the 29th of September and then to the [141]
1994
2nd October.
2 Oct
1994
31 Mar Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last [140]
Harold Camping
1995 prediction until 2011.
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
26 Mar Marshall [142]
evacuate this Earth" so that the cult members' souls could board the
1997 Applewhite
supposed craft and be taken to another "level of existence above human".
Applewhite and 38 of his followers committed mass suicide.
10 Aug The 1st-century bishop of Edessa predicted this date to be the birth date of [143]
Aggai
1997 the Antichrist and the end of the universe.
23 Oct James Ussher This 17th-century Irish archbishop predicted this date to be 6000 years since [144]
1997 creation, and therefore the end of the world.
31 Mar Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult Chen Tao – "The True Way" – claimed [145]
Hon-Ming Chen
1998 that God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date.
A quatrain by Nostradamus which stated the "King of Terror" would come
Jul [146]
Nostradamus from the sky in "1999 and seven months" was frequently interpreted as a
1999
prediction of doomsday in July 1999.
18 Aug The Amazing The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well [147]
1999 Criswell known for predictions.
Berg, dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre, stated that on this date "a ball
11 Sep [148]
Philip Berg of fire will descend, destroying almost all of mankind, all vegetation, all
1999
forms of life."
This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict
Charles Berlitz how it would occur, stating that it might involve nuclear devastation, asteroid [149]
impact, pole shift or other Earth changes.
The leader of the cult Chen Tao preached that a nuclear holocaust would [150]
Hon-Ming Chen
destroy Europe and Asia in 1999.
1999 James Gordon [151]
This preacher predicted the great tribulation would begin before 2000.
Lindsay
Timothy Dwight This 19th century president of Yale University predicted Christ's Millennium [152]
IV would start by 2000.
Nazim Al- This Sufi Muslim sheikh predicted that the Last Judgment would occur [153]
Haqqani before 2000.
Movement for
An estimated 778 followers of this Ugandan religious movement perished in
the Restoration [154]
a devastating fire and a series of poisonings and killings that were either a
of the Ten [155]
group suicide or an orchestrated mass murder by group leaders after their
Commandments
predictions of the apocalypse failed to come about.
of God

Jerry Falwell Falwell predicted God making judgement on the world on this date. [156]
1 Jan
2000 These Christian authors stated that the Y2K bug would trigger global
Tim LaHaye, [157]
economic chaos, which the Antichrist would use to rise to power. As the date
Jerry B. Jenkins
approached, however, they changed their minds.
During and before 1999 there was widespread predictions of a Y2K computer
bug that would crash many computers on midnight of January 1, 2000 and [95]
Various
cause malfunctions leading to major catastrophes worldwide, and that
society would cease to function.
6 Apr James The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the [158]
2000 Harmston Last Days predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this date.
5 May Nuwaubian This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star [159]
2000 Nation holocaust", pulling the planets toward the Sun on this date.
2000 This 13th-century theologian wrote that the Antichrist would come to power
Peter Olivi between 1300 and 1340, and the Last Judgement would take place around [160]
2000.
Ruth This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift [161]
Montgomery and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year.

Edgar Cayce This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year. [162]

Sun Myung The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven [163]
Moon would be established in this year.
This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus [164]
Ed Dobson
Could Return by A.D. 2000.

Lester Sumrall This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000. [165]

Jonathan This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would [166]
 Edwards begin in this year.

21st century
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
Tynnetta This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this [167]
2001
Muhammad year.
Lieder proposed the Nibiru cataclysm, which was predicted to occur on this
27 May date. She claimed aliens in the Zeta Reticuli star system told her a planet would [168]
Nancy Lieder
2003 enter the solar system and cause a pole shift on Earth that would destroy most
of humanity.
30
This Japanese cult, which carried out the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995,
Oct– Aum [169]
predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between 30 October
Nov 29 Shinrikyo
and 29 November 2003.
2003
Yisrayl Hawkins, pastor and overseer of The House of Yahweh, predicted in his
12 Sep House of [170]
February 2006 newsletter that a nuclear war would begin on September 12,
2006 Yahweh
2006.
29 Apr Pat In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day [171]
2007 Robertson of Earth's destruction.
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
May Pyotr [172]
apocalypse occurring in the spring. Kuzentsov did not join them, was later
2008 Kuznetsov
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.
Hermetic
This magical organization, which existed from 1887 to 1903, predicted the world [173]
2010 Order of the
would end during this year.
Golden Dawn
After several unsuccessful predictions in 1994 and 1995, Camping predicted
21 May Harold that the rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on 21 May 2011, with [174]
2011 Camping 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.
Weinland, the founder of the Church of God Preparing for the Kingdom of God,
29 Sep Ronald [175]
stated Jesus would return on this date. After his prophecy failed to come true
2011 Weinland
he changed the date to 27 May 2012.
When his original prediction failed to come about, Camping revised his
21 Oct Harold prediction and said that on May 21, a "Spiritual Judgment" took place and that [174]
2011 Camping both the physical rapture and the end of the world would occur on 21 October
2011.
There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenin travelling almost directly
Aug– between Earth and the Sun would cause disturbances to the Earth's crust,
Oct Various causing massive earthquakes and tidal waves. Others predicted that Elenin [176]
2011 would collide with Earth on October 16. Scientists tried to calm fears by stating
that none of these events were possible.
27 May Ronald Weinland's revised date for the return of Jesus following the failure of his 2011 [177]
2012 Weinland prediction.
This cult leader predicted that the world's governments and economies would
30 Jun José Luis de [178]
fail on this date, and that he and his followers would undergo a transformation
2012 Jesús
that would allow them to fly and walk through walls.
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 [179]
21 Dec
Various stated that no extant classic Maya accounts forecasted impending doom, and [180]
2012
that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresented Maya
history and culture. Scientists from NASA, along with expert archaeologists,
stated that none of those events were possible.
23 Aug Grigori Rasputin, a Russian mystic who died in 1916, prophesied a storm would take [181]
2013 Rasputin place on this date where fire would destroy most life on land and Jesus would
 come back to Earth to comfort those in distress.
The so-called blood moon prophecy, first predicted by Mark Biltz in 2008 and
Apr
then by John Hagee in 2014. These Christian ministers claim that the tetrad in [182]
2014– John Hagee,
2014 and 2015 may represent the beginning of the Messianic end times. Some [183]
Sep Mark Biltz
Mormons in Utah combined the September 2015 blood moon with other signs,
2015
causing a large increase in sales of preppers survival supplies.
23
Sep– Conspiracy theorist David Meade predicted that Nibiru would become visible in [184]
David Meade
15 Oct the sky and would "soon" destroy the Earth.
2017

23 Apr After his 2017 prediction failed, Meade predicted the rapture would take place [185]
David Meade [186]
2018 and that the world would end on this date.

Weinland, who previously predicted the world would end in 2011, 2012, and then [187]
9 Jun Ronald
2013, predicted in 2018 that Jesus would return on June 9, 2019. Prior to the [188]
2019 Weinland
date occurring he began to express some doubts regarding his own prediction.
Dixon predicted that Armageddon would take place in 2020. She previously [189]
2020 Jeane Dixon
predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962.
F. Kenton In 2012 this American pastor said the rapture would occur during 2021 at the [130]
2021
Beshore latest.

Future predictions

21st century

Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
13 Nov Heinz von In a 1960 Science article, this scientist predicted a date for the end of humanity [190]
2026 Foerster due to overpopulation.
Messiah This spiritual organization predicts that the world will end in 2026, when an
2026 Foundation asteroid collides with Earth in accordance with Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi's [191]
International predictions in his book The Religion of God.
While clarifying there is no way to be certain, this Christian fundamentalist
2028 Kent Hovind evangelist speculated in 2015 that 2028 was the "most likely" year for the [192]
rapture.

22nd–23rd centuries
 Date
Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(CE)
This Sunni Muslim theologian, author of the Risale-i Nur and founder of the Nur
movement, wrote in a letter to one of his students (the 21st in the so-called
31 Dec Kastamonu Appendix) that by applying numerology to a hadith he had arrived at [193]
Said Nursî
2129 a date of 1545 for the arrival of doomsday. 1545 in the Hijri calendar would be
2122; in the Rumi calendar it would be 2129. Nursî added that this was not a
definite prediction, as "nobody knows the time of doom in a strict manner".
According to the Talmud in mainstream Orthodox Judaism, the Messiah will
Talmud,
30 Sep come within 6000 years of the creation of Adam, and the world may be [3]
Orthodox
2239 destroyed 1000 years later. This would put the beginning of the period of
Judaism
desolation in 2239 and the end of the period of desolation in 3239.
Rashad According to this Egyptian-American biochemist's research on the Qu'ran, the [194]
2280
Khalifa world will end during that year.

Far future predictions

Estimated
timeframe Claimant(s) Description Ref.
(years)
In approximately 300,000 years, WR 104, a triple star, is expected to
explode in a supernova. It has been suggested that it may produce a gamma
ray burst that could pose a threat to life on Earth should its poles be aligned [195]
300,000 Peter Tuthill [196]
12° or lower towards Earth. However, spectroscopic observations now
strongly suggest that it is tilted at an angle of 30°-40° and so any gamma ray
burst should not hit Earth.

Geological Within the next 1 million years, Earth will likely have undergone a
1 million Society of supervolcanic eruption large enough to erupt 3,200 km3 of magma, an event [197]
London comparable to the Toba supereruption 75,000 years ago.
It is estimated that every 100 million years, Earth is hit by an asteroid about
Stephen A. [198]
100 million 10–15 km in diameter, comparable in size to the one that triggered the K–Pg
Nelson
extinction which killed non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
A gamma ray burst or a massive, hyperenergetic supernova, would have
occurred within 6,500 light-years of Earth, close enough for its rays to affect
500–600 Earth's ozone layer and potentially trigger a mass extinction, assuming that [199]
Anne Minard
million the hypothesis of a previous such explosion triggering the Ordovician–
Silurian extinction event is correct. However, the supernova would have to
be precisely oriented relative to Earth to have any negative effect.
The Sun's increasing brightness causes the rate of weathering of the planet's
crust to increase. This will cause the level of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere to drop dramatically, making photosynthesis in plants
impossible. This will very likely cause a mega mass extinction of the Earth's [200]
600–800
Various vegetation. The lack of oxygen-producing plants will cause oxygen in the [201]
million
atmosphere to disappear as well as the ozone layer, making animal life
impossible. Even if photosynthesis were still possible, rising surface
temperatures from the brighter sun will make complex life (plants and
animals) impossible.
The estimated end of the Sun's current phase of development, after which it
[202]
will swell into a red giant, either scorching or swallowing Earth, will occur
1–5 billion Various around five billion years from now. However, as the Sun grows gradually [203]
hotter (over millions of years), Earth may become too hot for life as early as [204]
one billion years from now.
It is estimated that all eukaryotic life will die out due to carbon dioxide [200]
1.6 billion Various
starvation, with only prokaryotes remaining.
The Earth and the Moon will most likely be destroyed by falling into the Sun,
just before the Sun reaches the largest of its red giant phase when it will be
7.59 billion David Powell 256 times larger than its current size. Before the final collision, the Moon will [205]
possibly spiral below Earth's Roche limit, breaking into a ring of debris, most
of which would fall to Earth's surface.
This is the end of the Universe in the Big Rip scenario, assuming a model of
dark energy with w = −1.5. Observations of galaxy cluster speeds by the [206]
22 billion Various
Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that the true value of w is approximately
−0.991, indicating the Big Rip would not occur.
The time estimated for the heat death of the universe, a hypothetical event
10100 Various in which the universe would diminish to a state of no thermodynamic free [207]
energy, becoming no longer able to sustain directed motion or life.

See also
Apocalypticism
Doomsday cult
Extinction risk from climate change
 List of predictions
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
Predictions and claims for the Second Coming
Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions

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External links
Apocalyptic predictions (http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm) on
ReligiousTolerance
Library of Date Setters of The End of the World: "Over 200 predictions and counting" (http://w
ww.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm)

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