Throughout the conscious history of mankind, there were people who, instead of just living and enjoying life, tried to figure out and predict when the end of the world would come. Some of these predictions are rather vague, but there are others that indicate the exact date and time of the end.
Since we are still alive, it means that none of these predictions, thank God, have come true. Let's hope that the same predictions for the future will also not come true.
Here we are not going to publish a detailed calendar of the end of the world, which did not take place - it would look very cumbersome. We will cite only the most famous dates, which, according to the forecasts of various people, were supposed to become the end of the world, the end of the world, Armageddon, but did not, thank God.
January 1 AD 1000
Pope Sylvester II, along with many other clergy in Europe, predicted that the end of the world would come on January 1, 1000. Because of which, in some parts of Europe there was unrest, and Christians made a massive pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Apparently they thought Christianity would not last more than 1000 years.
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1 February 1524
The German astrologer Johannes Stöfler warned everyone that the world would end on February 1, 1524 as a result of the great flood, the harbinger of which was the constellation Pisces visible in the night sky.
Despite the fact that many people moved to higher places, succumbing to general panic, and perhaps someone even rushed to build the ark, no great flood happened, only a little rain passed. So today's weather forecasters know how to "accurately" predict the weather.
1284
Pope Innocent III, who was not known as a great man at all, declared that this very year was the time of the second coming, adding 666 years to the date of the emergence of Islam.
Since it is not known for certain when Islam was born, it was rather difficult to determine the exact date, but somehow the pope still decided that it was 1284. Ironically named Innocent (meaning "innocent"), the pope blessed the crusades against the Islamic world, during which many Muslims died.
In many ways, this pope was wrong, including his prediction of the end of the world turned out to be wrong.
1656 or 1658
Christopher Columbus, the well-known navigator, wrote a book of prophecies, which was called the "Book of Prophecies" and was … strange. It included a checklist of things to happen before Christ's second coming, such as "The Garden of Eden must be found" and "The last emperor of the world must be elected." Despite the fact that none of this has happened to this day, Columbus continued to predict the second coming in 1656 and 1658.
1910
Comet tails contain a poisonous gas called cyanogen. When scientists discovered this in the 20th century, panic arose due to the approach of Halley's comet, then the Earth had to pass through its long tail. In fact, there was no danger here, but in 1910 the passage of a comet near the Earth was considered as the approach of the end of the world.
August 31, 2013
Grigory Rasputin - yes, that same Rasputin, the famous Russian seer and healer, a friend of the family of the last emperor of Russia - predicted more than 100 years ago that the existence of this world would end on August 31, 2013 … He warned of a "terrible storm" and that "fire will destroy all life on earth, life will end and a grave silence will reign. " Then, supposedly, Jesus will come and comfort the survivors for several days, and then return to heaven again.
1914
Charles Taze Russell, founder of Jehovah's Witnesses, predicted the second coming of Christ in 1914. When this did not happen, his religious brethren continued to predict the end of the world and predicted Armageddon seven more times, but Armageddon never happened.
1999
“In 1999, the seventh month, a great lord of terror will descend from heaven,” Nostradamus wrote about 400 years ago. Proponents of his doctrine decided that perhaps these words indicated the end of the world in 1999. The most interesting thing that happened in that month was the release of the third book about Harry Potter. But, if you remember, Voldemort (the true "dreadlord") was not reborn in this book.
2011
There is a lot to be said about Harold Camping, but you can’t say that he was an idle person or that he was easily persuaded. This Christian evangelist has predicted the end of the world more than a dozen times, including twice in 2011.
He claimed that this year marks exactly 7,000 years after the biblical Great Flood, which only Noah and his family survived. Camping followers sold their property, if not their homes, and came up with ways to escape.
Posters were posted everywhere, explaining how to prepare for the day of judgment, and drinking parties were arranged in bars on the occasion of the coming end. Without waiting for his predictions to come true, Camping died in 2013.
1813
In the very late 1700s, Joanna Southcott began to hear voices heralding the future. True, these voices did not tell her which horse would win the races, and that one day planes and iPhones would appear in our world. These were typical predictions of misfortunes such as the end of the world, famine, etc …
She did, indeed, once correctly predict that the Great Irish Famine would last from 1799 to 1801 (although Southcott lived in England). With such a gift, and also publishing her own books, in the end, she managed to attract about 100 thousand followers to her side.
In 1813, she told everyone that she was pregnant - although she remained a virgin - and that her child should become the messiah, his birth would mean the second coming of Christ, and therefore the imminent end of the world. But she died without giving birth to anyone, at the age of 64.
1666
This year has been really difficult. In one year, the Great Plague (1665-1666) claimed the lives of about 1/5 of the population of London. In addition, 666, according to the book of Revelation, is the number of Satan or the Number of the Beast, so many people thought that, undoubtedly, this year marks the end of earthly days.
Unsurprisingly, when the Great Fire of London also happened in September this year, which blazed for three days and destroyed tens of thousands of homes and buildings, people really thought it was the End.
2000
For many people, the “computer end of the world” was a serious cause for concern, leading to the complete collapse of the financial system and the death of civilization.
Many believed that all electronic devices would simply turn off or fail when the time ticked off the date 2000-01-01. To be honest, the problem really lay here, tk. when January 1, 2000, with a two-digit representation of the year after 99, the year 00 came (that is, 99 + 1 = 00), which was interpreted by many old programs as 1900, and this, in turn, could lead to serious failures in the operation of critical applications, for example, process control systems and financial programs.
Fortunately, the developers took care of this long before the "critical" date. However, some believed that planes would fall from the sky, lights would go out, warheads would be uncontrollable, nuclear power plants would explode, and opponents of computerization would point fingers at computer users who trusted too much to electronics.
This, as we see, did not happen. Thank God, nothing happened.
March 31, 1998
When Hong Min Chen founded his cult (Chen Tao or True Path), he combined Taoism, Buddhism, the doctrine of three souls, and the belief in UFOs. The Taiwanese assured everyone that Jesus would arrive on Earth on March 31, 1998 at 10 am.
On this day and hour, Hong Min Chen was expecting the coming of Jesus, being on the air of one of the American TV channels. But the miracle did not happen.
After his failure, Chen asked his followers to crucify him (literally), but they didn’t agree to it.
May 2003
The appearance of the fictional planet and the prophecies of the Doomsday caused concern for some people in May 2003. But it looks like we survived.
Who invented all this? A certain Nancy Leader, who created the site zetatalk.com and claimed that she was allegedly in contact with some extraterrestrial civilization located in the region of the star Zeta.
According to Leader, the aliens used her in their genetic experiments. When her predictions of an alien invasion did not come true, she has not abandoned her website, as well as her YouTube channel, and continues to post information about places where you can take refuge there when Planet X (Nibiru) reaches Earth's orbit and general chaos ensues.
It should be noted that, according to the descriptions of the Leader, the aliens are very similar to the same Lord Voldemort.
December 2012; 2016 september minutes
This list of unfulfilled doomsday predictions would not be complete without a Mayan prophecy. Although it is rather unclear whether it meant the end of the world, or the end of the next cycle according to the Mayan calendar and the beginning of a new, enlightened era.
Initially it was assumed that the end of everything would come in December 2012, however, when this did not happen, an amendment was made that due to the differences between the Gregorian calendar and the Mayan calendar, the date of death of all living things is actually June 3, 2016.
Since this date has passed without incidents, it is safe to say that we have not yet been destroyed, as, incidentally, have not been enlightened.
Svetlana Bodrik