Happy end of the world. Fun fact, since I was born in 1993, I have survived the end of the world a total of 45 times. According to wikipedia.
| 1993 | David Berg | Berg predicted the tribulation would start in 1989 and that the Second Coming would take place in 1993. | [110] |
| 1994, May 2 | Neal Chase | This Bahá'í sect leader predicted that New York would be destroyed by a nuclear bomb on March 23, 1994, and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days later. | [111] |
| 1994, Sep/Oct | Harold Camping | Camping predicted the Rapture would occur on September 6, 1994. When it failed to occur he revised the date to September 29 and then to October 2. | [112][113] |
| 1995, Mar 31 | Harold Camping | Camping's fourth predicted date for the end. This would be Camping's last prediction until 2011. | [113] |
| 1996, Dec 17 | Sheldon Nidle | California psychic Sheldon Nidle predicted that the world would end on this date, with the arrival of 16 million space ships and a host of angels. | [114] |
| 1997, Mar 26 | 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. | [115] |
| 1997, Oct 23 | James Ussher | This 17th-century Irish Archbishop predicted this date to be 6000 years since Creation, and therefore the end of the world. | [116] |
| 1998, Mar 31 | Hon-Ming Chen
(陳恆明)
| Hon-Ming Chen, leader of the Taiwanese cult God's Salvation Church, or Chen Tao — "The True Way" — claimed that God would come to Earth in a flying saucer at 10:00 am on this date. Moreover, God would have the same physical appearance as Chen himself. On March 25, God was to appear on Channel 18 on every TV set in the US. Chen chose to base his cult in Garland, Texas, because he thought it sounded like "God's Land." | [117] |
| 1999 | Seventh-day Adventists | Some literature distributed by Seventh-day Adventists predicted the end in this year. | [118] |
| Charles Berlitz | This linguist predicted the end would occur in this year. He did not predict how it would occur, stating it may involve nuclear devastation, asteroid impact, pole shift or other earth changes. | [119] | |
| 1999, Jul | Nostradamus | A prediction attributed to Nostradamus stating the "King of Terror" would come from the sky in "1999 and seven months" led to fears of the end. | [120] |
| 1999, Aug 18 | The Amazing Criswell | The predicted date of the end of the world, according to this psychic well known for false predictions. | [121] |
| 1999, Dec 31 | Hon-Ming Chen
(陳恆明)
| Hon-Ming Chen's cult God's Salvation Church, now relocated to upstate New York, preached that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe and Asia sometime between October 1 and December 31, 1999. | [122] |
| 'Before' 2000 | Hal Lindsey | After his 1980's predictions failed to come true, Lindsay published the book Planet Earth 2000 A.D. in 1994, which stated that Christians should not plan to still be on earth by the year 2000. | [123] |
| James Gordon Lindsay | This preacher predicted the tribulation would begin before the year 2000. | [124] | |
| Texe Marrs | This conspiracy theorist stated that the last days could "wrap up by the year 2000." | [125] | |
| Timothy Dwight IV | This President of Yale University foresaw Christ's Millennium starting by 2000. | [126] | |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | In 1971, and again in 1984, the Jehovah's Witnesses stated the end would be before the end of the 20th century. | [127][128] | |
| 2000 - c. | 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. | [129] |
| Helena Blavatsky | The founder of Theosophy foresaw the end of the world in this year. | [130] | |
| Isaac Newton | Newton predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. | [131] | |
| Ruth Montgomery | This self-described Christian psychic predicted the Earth's axis would shift and the Antichrist would reveal himself in this year. | [132] | |
| Edgar Cayce | This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year. | [133] | |
| Sun Myung Moon | The founder of the Unification Church predicted the Kingdom of Heaven would be established in this year. | [134] | |
| Ed Dobson | This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000. | [135] | |
| Lester Sumrall | This minister predicted the end in his book I Predict 2000. | [136] | |
| Jonathan Edwards | This 18th-century preacher predicted that Christ's thousand-year reign would begin in this year. | [137] | |
| 2000, Jan 1 | Various | Predictions of a Y2k computer bug were to crash many computers and would malfunction causing major catastrophes worldwide and that society would cease to function. | Year 2000 problem |
| 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. | [138] | |
| Jerry Falwell | Falwell foresaw God pouring out his judgement on the world on this day. | [139] | |
| Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins | These Christian authors stated 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. | [140] | |
| 2000, April 6 | 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. | [141] |
| 2000, May 5 | Nuwaubian Nation | This movement claimed that the planetary lineup would cause a "star holocaust," pulling the planets toward the sun on this day. | [142] |
| 2000, Oct 9 | Grant Jeffrey | This bible teacher suggested this date as the "probable termination point for the 'last days.'" | [143] |
| 2001 | Tynetta Muhammad | This columnist for the Nation of Islam predicted the end would occur in this year. | [144] |
| 2003, May | Nancy Lieder | Lieder originally predicted the date for the Nibiru collision as 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. | [145] |
| 2003, Nov 29 | Aum Shinrikyo | This Japanese cult predicted the world would be destroyed by a nuclear war between October 30 and November 29, 2003. | [146] |
| 2006, June 6 | Various Christians | Fears about the date being 06/06/06 led some people to believe the Antichrist would come on this day, as 666 is said to be the number of the Antichrist. | [147][148] |
| 2006, Sep 12 | House of Yahweh | Yisrayl Hawkins, Pastor and Overseer, The House of Yahwah, Abilene, Texas in the Feb. 2006 newsletter predicted the start of nuclear war on September 12, 2006. | [149] |
| 2007, Apr 29 | Pat Robertson | In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction. | [150] |
| 2008, Sep 10 – c. | Various | A number of groups claimed that activation of the Large Hadron Collider experiment would bring about the end of the world through the production of planet-eating micro black holes or strangelets. Similar claims were made about 2010, March 30, when the collider reached 7 TeV, half of its maximum energy. See safety of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. | [151] |
| 2010 | Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn | This magic order predicted the world would end in this year. | [152] |
| 2011, May 21 | Harold Camping | Camping predicted that the Rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on May 21, 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. | 2011 end times prediction |
| 2011, Aug–Oct | Various | There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenin travelling 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. | [153] |
| 2011, Sep 29 | Ronald Weinland | Ronald Weinland stated Jesus Christ would return on this day. He prophesied nuclear explosions in U.S. port cities by July 2008 as the blowing of the Second Trumpet of Revelation. After his prophecy failed to come true he changed the date for the return of Jesus Christ to May 27, 2012. | [154] |
| 2011, Oct 21 | Harold Camping | When his original date 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 October 21, 2011. | 2011 end times prediction |
| 2012, May 27 | Ronald Weinland | Ronald Weinland stated Jesus Christ would return and the world would end on this day. | [157] |
| 2012, June 30 | José Luis de Jesús | José Luis de Jesús 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. | [158][159] |
AND FINALLY!!
| Date (CE) | Claimant | Description | Reference(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012, Dec 21 | Various | The so-called Mayan apocalypse at the start of the 14th b'ak'tun. The Earth would be destroyed by an asteroid, Nibiru, or some other interplanetary object; an alien invasion; or a supernova. Scientists from NASA, along with expert archeologists stated that none of those events were possible. | 2012 phenomenon |
and that is your interesting fact for this day, the end of the world (not)
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