~2800BC
An Assyrian clay tablet bears the words "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs the world is coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common." Good to know conservatives were alive and well 5,000 years ago.

634BC
The Roman way of thinking was that 1UAC (753BC) was the founding of Rome, and the world would end after the 12 eagles revealed to Romulus had expired, each eagle being 10 years.

1st Century
Jesus said "Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." Jesus was saying that his "Second Coming", upon which the doomsday cult 'Christianity' is founded, would be within their lifetime. It wasn't. The Apostles, taking Jesus at his word, expected him to return in their generation. He didn't.

156AD
Montanus and two prophetesses predicted the world's end was imminent. So great were the crowds who flocked to where heavenly Jerusalem would descend, near Ankara in Turkey, that a new town was constructed to house them all!

~200AD
Novatian had a large Mediterranean following. But nothing happened. So did Donatus. But nothing happened. Both claimed the end in the near future.

247AD
Rome celebrated its thousanth anniversary, and coincidentally increased its persecution of subversive cults. It eradicated most, but a small and insignificant one survived. Christianity, which recorded this time as being "The End is upon us". It wasn't.

380AD
Donatist scripture (closely related to Christianity and in the age, no more different than an Anglican is to a Methodist) claimed the world would come to a close in this year. It didn't.

~400AD
Saint Martin of Tours (316-397) "There is no doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. Firmly established already in his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, achieve supreme power." He didn't.

500AD
Doomsday cult "Christianity" took control of Rome. Roman theologian Sextus Julius Africanus (c160-240) claimed that the End would occur 6,000 years after the Creation. He assumed that there were 5,531 years between the Creation and the Resurrection, and thus expected the Second Coming to take place no later than 500 AD. It didn't.

~600AD Pope Gregory I (540-604) spoke with papal infallibility to claim the Second Coming was "already near".

793AD
Beatus of Liébana, a Christian prophet, prophecised that the world would end on April 6th, 793. He caused a minor panic. But it didn't.

800AD Sextus Julianus Africanus assumed he'd made a mistake, and revised his date to 800AD. He'd made another mistake.

848AD Biship Gregory of Tours calculated that the Second Coming and Rapture would occur no later than 806, and no sooner than 799.

970AD Christians saw the 25th of March as being the day of the Annunciation, Good Friday, Adam's creation, Isaac's sacrifice, Moses parting the Red Sea, Jesus being concieved and Jesus being crucified. Hence the world would end. It didn't, like anything else Christians claim.

992AD Bernard of Thuringia calculated that the end would come in 992. The Pope prepared for the End of Times, but the sun rose as usual. Their God clearly wasn't listening.

995AD The Feast of the Annunciation and Good Friday coincided again, like they did in 970. Again the world didn't end.

1000AD Where to start? Being 1000 years after Christ's supposed birth, the Christians were having a field day. Even small parish churches were warning their congregations to prepare for their deaths. But they didn't die.

1033AD To save face after the screw up in 1000AD, Christians admitted to a mistake (maybe for the only time in their history) and moved the date to the date 1000 years after Jesus' supposed crucifiction.

1184AD The coming of the Antichrist was in this year. But it wasn't.

1186AD The Letter of Toledo, penned by John of Toledo, warned of a planetary alignment (an astronomical confluence) on the 23rd of September, destroying the world. It didn't.

1260AD Joachim of Fiore (1132-1202), an Italian mystic, somehow determined that Christ's Millennium would begin between 1200 and 1260.

1284AD Pope Innocent III expected the Second Coming to happen this year, it being 666 years after the rise of Islam. He's still waiting.

1290AD Followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled doomsday to 1290 when the 1260 attempt failed.

1306AD In 1147, Gerard of Poehlde believed Christ's Millennium began with Emperor Constantine coming to power in 306AD, so the end of the millennium would be 1306 and Satan would have unlimited power. He didn't.

1335AD Joachim of Fiore's crackpots, the Joachites, gave another date. Three attempts, three failures.

1367AD Archdeacon Militz of Kromeriz believed the Antichrist to be alive and well and would manifest between 1363 and 1367, causing the end two years later. He wasn't and didn't.

1370AD French Ascetic Jean de Roquetaillade predicted the coming of the Antichrist in 1366, followed by Christ's Millennium in 1368 or 1370. People will believe anything.

1378AD Arnold of Vilanova, another Joachite, wrote in "De Tempore Adventu Antichristi" that the Antichrist was due in 1378. He's late.

1420AD Martinek Hausha, a Taborite (Related to Hussites), claimed the world would end no later than February 14th, 1420.

1496AD Christ's Millennium, whatever that means, began in this year according to various 15th century mystics.

1504AD Sandro Botticelli's "The Mystical Nativity" has a caption in Greek, reading: "I Sandro painted this picture at the end of the year 1500 in the troubles of Italy in the half time after the time according to the eleventh chapter of St. John in the second woe of the Apocalypse in the loosing of the devil for three and a half years. Then he will be chained in the 12th chapter and we shall see him trodden down as in this picture." He thought he was living during the Tribulation and the Millennium would begin in three years.

1524AD The End would occur from a great flood starting in London on February 1, according to some astrologers. 20,000 people abandoned their homes and clergymen stockpiled food and water in a fortress. It didn't even rain.

1524AD A planetary confluence in Pisces was going to flood the world in 1524, February 20th, according to astrologer Johannes Stoeffler.

1525AD Anabaptist Thomas Müntzer believed he was living in the end of all ages. He led a peasants' revolt which also failed. He was tortured and executed. The end of his ages, certainly.

1528AD Stoeffler mad a mistake and rescheduled Doomsday to 1528. Another mistake.

1528AD, May 27th. Reformer Hans Hut predicted the end would occur on the Pentecost. It didn't.

1532AD The wonderfully named Frederick Nausea, Viennese bishop, was convinced the end would arrive in 1532 after hearing of bizarre happenings, including bloody crosses appearing in the sky alongside a comet.

1533AD Anabaptist "prophet" Melchior Hoffman claimed the Second Coming would arrive in this year, saving 144,000 people in Strasbourg and the rest of the world would be consumed by fire.

1533AD With the precision expected from mathematics, Michael Stifel's calculations showed the Day of Judgement beginning at 8am in the morning of Ocrober 19th. Maybe one of his variables didn't or one of his constants wasn't.

1534AD, April 5th was to be the day of the Apocalypse, it being Easter. According to Jan Matthys, only the city of Münster would be saved.

1537AD French astrologer Pierre Turrel announced four different dates for the end of the world, using four different methods. 1537 was the first.

1544AD Turrel's second date.

1555AD Sometime around 1400, French theologian Pierre d'Ailly wrote that 6,845 years of human history had passed, and the end of the world would be in the 7,000th year. Christopher Columbus' own apocalyptic thinking would be influenced by this.

1556AD Few records remain, but it seems a rumour was circulating about the end coming on Magdalene's Day (July 22nd) of this year.

1583AD, April. A conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn naturally meant the end of the world. Astrologers picked on everything from earthquakes, fire, floods and the Second Coming.

1584AD Another astrologer says we're all going to die in a fire. Another astrologer is a wrong astrologer, but "wrong" and "astrologer" are redundant.

1588AD The world ended in this year according to the predictions of the sage Regiomontanus.

1600AD Martin Luther predicted the end would be no later than 1600.

1603AD Dominican monk Tomasso Campanella was told by God that the Sun would collide with Earth in 1603. Almighty doesn't imply infallible, it seems.

1623AD Puyssel's numerology derived the end of days as being 1623.

1624AD The same wrong astrologers who predicted the flood of 1524 revised up by 100 years when they failed. They failed again. Astrology, huh?

1648AD Rabbi Zevi in Turkey used the Kabbalah to predict miracles and Messiah in 1648. Of course the Messiah would be Zevi.

1654AD A supernova in 1572 (Tycho's Nova) was used by Helisaeus Roeslin in 1578 to predict the end of the world in 1654, consumed by fire.

1656AD In biblical mythology, there were 1656 years between the Creation and God realising he'd fucked up and bringing the Flood. Hence it logically followed that there would be 1656 years between the First and Second Comings of Christ. Right? RIGHT?

1657AD Apocalyptic battle and destruction of the Antichrist happened in this year, according to the Fifth Monarchy Men (Same as the Christian Coalition in modern times) who attempted to overthrow the English parliament to impose their own extremist views. Fundies rarely get anything right.

1658AD Christopher Columbus' "The Book of Prophecies" claims that the world was created in 5343BC and would last only 7,000 years. Creationism wasn't taken seriously by any of the educated elite as far back as 1500AD, but Columbus wasn't an educated man and worse, was a 'converso', an extreme fundamentalist group not unlike today's Southern Baptists. Then again, that pretty much says he wasn't educated so the first bit was redundant.

1660AD Joseph Mede's work influenced both Newton and Ussher but also included that the Antichrist had been born in 456 and the end would come 1,204 years later. He should have stuck to science.

1666AD Biblical numerology, upheaval and war in England meant many Londoners believed the end was upon them. The Great Fire of London didn't help things either.

1666AD Rabbi Zevi recalculated to 1666 after he turned out to be wrong first time. Despite every prediction he made being wrong, he had amassed a large quantity of followers in Turkey. He was arrested and given the choice of converting to Islam or being executed. He wisely chose the former.

1673AD Undisturbed by their previous string of consistent failures, the Fifth Monarchy Movement claimed the Millennium of Christ would begin this year. Their losing streak didn't end.

1688AD Discovering logarithms made John Napier quite famous, but his prediction of The End in 1688 from readings of Revelations is normally omitted from biographies.

1689AD Huguenot Camisard prophet Pierre Jurieu confidently predicted Judgement Day in 1689.

1694AD German theologian Johann Alsted and Alglican rector John Mason independently decided Christ's Millennium would begin in this year. Two wrongs don't make a right.

1694AD Using theology and astrology (because they'd been so accurate over the years), German prophet Johann Zimmerman decided to go to the New World with a group of pilgrims to welcome Christ back. He died in February and Johannes Kelpius took over the leadership of their "Woman in the Wilderness", they paid their way to the New World and, of course, their messiah didn't show.

1697AD Anglican rector Thomas Beverly said the Millennium would begin in earnest in 1697.

1697AD Witchhunter Cotton Mather of Puritan New England didn't just burn women, he also predicted the end of the world. Three times.

1700AD Puritans believed all "revelry, feasting, enjoyous crimes and other sinful acts of Man" would be eradicated in 1700, leaving a pure godly world.

1700AD John Napier's second prediction, based on the Book of Daniel.

1700AD The Second Coming according to Henry Archer of the Fifth Monarchy Movement in his 1642 book "The Personall Reign of Christ Upon Earth". Their string of failures wasn't ended here.

1705-1708AD Camisard prophets gave end dates varying wildly, but between 1705 and 1708. "Man is not meant to be free, this liberal corruption of our people of servants will cause doom upon us all". Pretty much business as usual for Bible Belt America today.

1716 Cotton Mather's second date.

1719AD, April 5th. The return of a comet was going to wipe out Earth according to Bernoulli. Yes, *that* Bernoulli.

1734AD 15th century Cardinal Nicolas of Cusa predicted the end no sooner than 1700 and no later than 1734.

1736AD Cotton Mather's third strike.

1736AD, October 13th. Alarmist William Whitson predicted that London would be doomed by flood on this day, prompting many scared Londoners to sit on the Thames in boats.

1757AD Angels in a vision spoke to Emanual Swedenborg, and told him that the world would end in 1757. He wasn't taken seriously.

1761AD April 5th. An earthquake in London on the 8th of February, and again on the 8th of March prompted religious extremist William Bell that the world was to end in another 28 days. So on April the fifth, Londoners promptly took to the Thames in boats. Pissed off that the world didn't end, they threw Bell in the famous nuthouse Bedlam. Fundamentalism is hazardous to one's mental health.

1763AD, February 28th. Methodist George Bell saw the end of the world in this date. Nobody else did.

1780AD, May 19th. Skies in New England darkened in the afternoon, Judgement Day had arrived! Well, Judgement Day or high atmosphere soot from large scale forest fires to the west.

1789AD The coming of the Antichrist according to Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly in the 14th century.

1790AD Orator Francis Dobbs confidently predicted the Second Coming in 1790.

1792AD The Shakers believed the world would end 300 years after the discovery of the New World.

1794AD The Shakers belie...you know, I have the strangest feeling of deja vu.

1794AD No less a man than Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley the founder of the Methodist Church, predicted Doomsday in 1794.

1795AD God's Almighty Nephew, Richard Brothers, a retired English Sailor would lead the ten lost tribes of Israel and God would make him King of England. He ended up in Bedlam.

1795AD Campaigning for the release of Brothers, Nathanial Halhead proclaimed the world would end on the 19th of November.

1801AD Pierre Turrel's third shot.

1804AD Father George Rapp claimed in 1804 that the Second Coming would be in the near future.

1805AD 17th Century Presbyterian minister Christopher Love claimed a worldwide Earthquake followed by an age of everlasting peace where God would be known to all. His shoulders and head were eventually divorced.

1814AD Pierre Turrel's fourth and final failure.

1814AD, December 25th. A minor stir was caused by 64 year old virgin prophet Joanna Southcott who, according to witnesses, did appear pregnant. She claimed to be carrying the Christ child, and died on Christmas Day. A subsequent autopsy discovered she was not pregnant, nor virginal but had definitely poisoned herself.

1820AD, October 14th. Follower of Southcott, John Turner, claimed this day as the end. After it turned out like every other entry on this list, John Wroe took over leadership of the cult.

1825AD Hawaiian prophetess Hapu founded a cult in 1825, claiming she was the third member of the Trinity and the world was about to end.

1832AD Years since the last claim of the Millennium starting, John Dilks made another one for this year.

1836AD John Wesley, creator of the Methodists, saw the Millennium as beginning in 1836 when the Beast of Revelation was to rise from the sea. Revelation, and Wesley, were both wrong.

1842AD London phrenologist John Wilson published "Our Israelitish Origin" in 1840, and "The Millennium" in 1842. Both books concluded the Second Coming was imminent.

1843AD Harriet Livermore's Parousia prediction, the first.

1843AD, April 28th. William Miller's followers, the Millerites, held that the Second Coming would be on this day. The cult's leaders didn't endorse this, but neither did they quash it.

1843AD A busy year for Millerites. After the earlier one failed, they believed it to happen before 1844.

1844AD Careful calculations by William Miller revealed that Christ would return sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. He gathered a following of thousands of devotees. After the failure of Jesus to show up during this window, the cult experienced a crisis of faith and in the confusion began reinterpreting the prophecy and aggressively proselytizing.

1844AD, October 22nd. Rev. Samuel S. Snow, a Millerite cult leader, predicted the Second Coming on this day. The date was soon accepted by Miller himself. On that day, the Millerites gathered on a hilltop to await the coming of Jesus. After the inevitable no-show, the event became known as the "Great Disappointment." Like the whole cult really.

1845AD The core of the Millerites became the Second Adventists, and confidently predicted a Second Coming in 1845.

1846AD Second Adventists second Second Coming. They later became the Seventh Day Adventists who, to my knowledge, do not predict the Second Coming every year.

1847AD Harriet Livermore's Parousia prediction, second attempt.

1847, August 7th. George Rapp, a German ascetic founded a sect he termed the Harmonists, and established a utopian commune in Pennsylvania. He was certain that Jesus would return before his death. On his deathbed, he uttered "If I did not know the dear Lord meant I should present you all to him, I should think my last moment's come." His last moment had come indeed, and he died on the 7th of August without a second coming.

1849AD Third Second Coming from the Second Adventists.

1851AD Fourth Second Coming from the Second Adventists.

1856AD The Crimean War, 1853-56 was spun by the popular press as the Battle of Armageddon, as Russia wanted to sieze Palestine from the Ottoman Empire, and led to the "Russia Invades Israel" which is so popular with doomsayers even today.

1862AD The end of 6,000 years since Creation (Hang on, didn't we have 7,000 years a few hundred years before this?) according to John Cumming of the Scottish National Church.

1863AD John Wroe, leader of the cult of Southcott, tried and failed to walk on water in 1823 and underwent a public circumcision, decided the Millennium would begin in 1863.

1867AD-1869AD Michael Paget Baxter, an Anglican minister, predicted the End for all three years over numerous dates.

1870AD, June 28th Irvin Moore's "The Final Destiny of Man" said the end would come after France had fallen and Jerusalem became capital of the world, which would finally happen on the 28th of June.

1870-72AD More dates from Michael Baxter

1874AD End of the world according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Get used to seeing their name.

1874AD The Parousia according to the Second Adventists, who had just renamed themselves to Seventh Day Adventists.

1878AD End of the world according to Jehovah's Witnesses.

1878AD The Russellites (a splinter group of the Second Adventists, who later merged with the Jehovah's Witnesses) stood in white robes on the Sixth Street Bridge, Pittsburgh on the night of the Passover to be Raptured by Jesus. In the morning, they were still there and still looking stupid.

1880AD Thomas Rawson Birks determined the end of the world in 1880 using a peculiar construct he termed "Great Week Theory"

1881AD End of the world according to Jehovah's Witnesses.

1881AD End of the world according to some pyramidologists.

1881AD Mother Shipton, a famous 16th century English prophetess, was accused of writing "The world to an end shall come / In eighteen hundred and eighty one", but she never wrote anything of the kind, the "prediction" was a forgery by Charles Hindley who had published her prophecies in 1862 - this was known in 1873, but it didn't stop some people expecting the end in 1881. Many other entries in his book have since been shown to be falsified.

1891AD Wovoka, leader of the Northern Paiutes, predicted Christ's Millennium in 1890. He was a practitioner of "Ghost Dance", a strange meld of the worst of Christianity with the worst of Native American mysticism. Not unlike some other religious melds (Judaism + Roman + Unknown Doomsday Cult = Christianity, Christianity + Judaism = Islam) it was an unstable mess of ideas with no strong leader figure to make it last.

1895AD The Millennium according to Reverend Robert Reid, Pennsylvania.

1896AD Michael Baxter (not again...) predicted the Rapture in 1896. 144,000 Christians were due to be summoned to Heaven. That 144,000 figure again? That's the capacity of Heaven. Jesus said that when he returned (see Jesus' own entry much earlier in this document), he would raise 144,000 of his followers to Heaven. None shall enter Heaven any other way.

1899AD Charles Totten predicted the world would end in 1899.

1900AD Father Lacheze foresaw Doomsday 8 years after the Temple in Jerusalem was rebuilt in 1892.

1900AD Followers of the ascetic Antonio Conselheiro in Brazil expected the end no later than 1900.

1900AD, November 13th. Over a hundred members of the Brothers and Sisters of the Red Death, a cult in Russia, killed themselves as the world was to end on this day.

1901AD The Catholic Apostolic Church was founded by 12 members and Jesus would return before the 12 founding members died. The last died in 1901.

1901AD Michael Baxter (again) predicted in 1901.

1908AD, April 23. Another from Baxter. The Rapture was to happen on March 12, 1903 in the early afternoon. Armageddon was to happen on this day.

1908AD, May 18. Pennsylvanian Lee Spangler incited a mob with his claims of the world meeting a fiery death.

1910AD End of the world according to Jehovah's Witnesses.

1910AD Halley's Comet was to make a return in this year, and Earth would pass through its tail. The spectroscope had detected cyanide in the tail of the comet (HCN is a common organic compound in space), and doomsayers claimed it would poison the atmosphere. Most of these doomsayers were also selling "comet pills" to make people immune to the toxins.

1911AD 19th Century Scottish myramidologist Charles Smyth concluded that the Great Pyramid of Giza predicted the Second Coming of a religion which was over a thousand years yet to be founded when it was built, between 1892 and 1911.

1914AD, October 1st. The end of the world according to Jehovah's Witnesses. Indeed, they viewed the Great War as the Battle of Armageddon.

1915AD Fundamentalist John Chilembwe in Malawi said the Millennium would start in 1915.

1918AD End of the world according to Jehovah's Witnesses.

1919AD Second Coming of Christ according to the 1915 book "When Will Our Lord Return?" by Harold Norris.

1919AD, December 17th. Disgraced meteorologist Albert Porta caused mass panic by claiming a loose conjunction of six planets would cause a "magnetic current" to "pierce the sun", causing an explosion of flaming gas which would engulf the Earth. Some even comitted suicide in the hysteria which followed.

1920AD Alexander Bedward, an illiterate labourer gained a huge following in Jamaica in 1920, predicting he would ascend to heaven on December 31st, then return and destroy Earth. He was placed in an asylum.

1925AD, February 13th. Margaret Rowan had a vision of the Angel Gabriel, telling her that the world would end at midnight on this date. The popular conception of Friday 13th being unlucky seems to have began here.

1925AD End of the world according to Jehovah's Witnesses.

1928AD JB Dimbleby 'calculated' that the Millennium would begin in spring 1928, the Second Coming and Rapture being between 1889 and 1928. The true end of the world wouldn't be until 3,000.

1934AD Chicago preacher Nathan Cohen Beskin claimed Armageddon would begin in 1931.

1935AD Wilbur Glen Voliva announced the world would go "puff" and disappear in September. He gave no reasoning nor method.

1936AD Herbert W Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God (www.wcg.org) told his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936 and only they would be saved. He changed the date three more times afterwards.

1938AD Gus McKey claimed the 6,000th year since Creation would come between 1931 and 1938, and the world would end. Given that 1555 (see its own entry) was meant to be the 7,000th year, Gus got his numbers screwed somewhere.

1941AD Stop me if you've heard this before. End of the world according to Jehovah's Witnesses.

1941AD The end of the world according to Leonard Dale-Harrison.

1943AD Herbert W Armstrong's second Rapture prediction.

1945AD, September 21st, 17:33. A minister named Long had a vision of a hand writing 1945 and a voice saying the world would be destroyed at 5:33pm on September 21st.

1947AD America's Greatest Prophet, John Ballou Newbrough, saw the destruction of all law and order and post-apocalyptic anarchy in 1947.

1950AD Henry Adams predicted the end on this date.

1952AD End of the world according to Billy Graham.

1953AD, January 9th. End of the world according to Agnes Carlson, founder of the Sons of Light cult in Canada.

1953AD, August. Pyramidologist David Davidson wrote a book about the Great Pyramid of Giza and how it had a message from God encoded in it. The Millennium would begin in this month.

1954AD, December 21st. UFO cults started becoming fashionable (much how messianic doomsday cults were fashionable in Roman occupied Jerusalem, founding what would eventually become Christianity). A notable one, founded by Dorothy Martin (aka. Marian Keech) was named Brotherhood of the Seven Rays. Among their members were George Hunt Williamson and Charles Laughead, who were interviewed by Leon Festinger for his book "When Prophecy Fails", a classic ground breaking study of cognitive dissonance and the effect that failed prophecy has on the brainwashed.

1957AD, April 23rd. Mihran Ask, a Californian pastor, claimed the Battle of Armageddon would start on this date. She was published in Watchtower, the publication of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and many of their following believed her.

1958AD David Latimer predicted in his book "Opening of the Seven Seals" that the Second Coming would happen in 1956 or 1958, right after the Battle of Armageddon.

1959AD, April 22nd. After a disagreement with the Seventh Day Adventists, who were the Second Adventists, who were the Millerites, Victor Houteff founded the Davidians and claimed the end of days was coming soon. He died before publishing a date. His widow Florence claimed this date, and hundreds of faithful gathered at Mount Carmel just outside Waco to await the big moment. Why they couldn't go to a church like other brainwashed people do, I can't say.

1960AD Charles Piazzi Smyth, referenced in the 1911 entry, claimed the Millennium would begin no later than 1960.

1962AD, February 4th. A rather impressive planetary conjunction was to destroy the world according to numerous doomsayers, most of whom would sell you a "survival kit". Crank Jeane Dixon claimed the Antichrist would come the next day.

1966AD Islamic scholars (the only ones allowed to interpret the Q'ran in Islam) predicted an apocalyptic battle in 1965-1966, resulting in the fall of the United States and Europe and the rise of Islam. I guess the Q'ran isn't so infallible.

1967AD Rev. Sun Myung Moon predicted the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven.

1967AD Nuclear holocaust according to Jim Jones, later guru of the Kool-Aid cult People's Temple.

1967AD, Augist 20th. A Soviet nuclear strike would destroy Florida, Texas and nearby states according to UFO cultist George Van Tassel/Alien named Ashtar.

1967AD, December 25th. Knud Weiking claimed a scientifically inept alien named Orthon was speaking to him. A nuclear war would happen by this date, which would disturb the Earth's orbit. You'd think aliens would know basic physics. His followers built a primitive survival bunker anyway.

1969AD, August 9th. Mormons believed the Second Coming of Christ was to be on this day. Presumably he now has six wives and lives on a farm.

1969AD, November 22nd. Robin McPherson, in contact with an alien named OxHo (Bwahahah!) claimed that Christianity was a universal religion, Christ had appeared on every inhabited planet in the universe to found his religion, and would bring about Judgement Day on this day.

1970AD The 450-strong True Light Church of Christ of North and South Carolina, USA, gave the end date as 1970.

1972AD Herbert W Armstrong's third Rapture prediction.

1973AD David Berg, better known as Moses David, leader of the Children of God/Family of Love/The Family, screwed up his orbital ephemerids (if he even knew what they are) and claimed Comet Kohoutek would hit the United States in 1973. The media had hyped the comet up due to a faulty assumption by some astronomers, who thought the comet was a virgin Oort cloud object, so it was rich pickings.

1974AD, January. Davig Berg predicted the comet would strike Earth a little later.

1975AD In a rich year for doomsayers, the Jehovah's Witnesses were included (as usual), Herbert W Armstrong had his fourth in this year and Charles Taylor got one in. Some greedy Jehovah's Witnesses took out high interest loans with unrealistic payment plans, to pay for worldly pleasures before the end times meant they didn't have to repay them. Several were jailed, others are still paying back their greed today.

1976AD Notch another one for Charles Taylor.

1976AD, February 6th. On this date, a group of 25 people were entrenched in an Arkansas house keeping a vigil for the second coming of Christ to save them from doomsday.

1977AD John Wroe, the Southcottian reference in the late 1800s, set 1977 as the Battle of Armageddon. William Branham predicted the Rapture in 1977, the Vatican would become a world dictatorship, Christianity would be unified and boy bands would be outlawed. I made that last bit up. Adam Rutherford claimed Christ's Millennium for 1977 too.

1978AD Using the ever reliable sources of scripture, pyramidology, pole shift theory and young-Earth creationism (as well as various other mysticism), John Strong rambled over 300 pages in "The Doomsday Globe" about how the world would end in 1978. The book made him a tidy penny to spend after his predictions failed.

1979AD The founder of Australia's Christian Revival Crusade, a Leo Harris, argued 1979 as the Second Coming, based on Christ having to return within one generation of 1917 for some odd reason. Some books from this cult predict 2000 instead.

1979AD, February 19th. Roch Theriault and 17 followers cramped into a log cabin in Quebec to wait for the end of the world. Because a log cabin sure helps.

1980-1989AD Stephen D Swihart predicted to end to arrive in the '80s in his book "Armageddon 198?". With the advent of Hair Metal, some thought it had.

1980AD Charles Taylor's third prediction of the Rapture. These things come in threes. Idiots, that is, not Raptures.

1980AD, April 1st. Radio preacher Willie Day Smith, a Texan baptist, claimed this day would be the day of the Second Coming. Texans flocked to a site he gave en-masse to stand there wondering what to do. Idiots.

1980AD, April 29th. Leland Jensen, founder of the Bahá'ís Under the Provisions of the Covenant, a perverse abortion of Bahá'í, pyramidology and apocalyptic Biblical beliefs, predicted a nuclear holocaust on this day. When said mushroom clouds failed to materialise, Jensen claimed it was merely the beginning of the Tribulation.

1981AD A hot year for the world to end. Charles Taylor got one in, Rev. Sun Myung Moon another, Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel, wrote a book saying the Lord would come in 1981. His group members suffered a small scale version of 1844's Great Disappointment.

1981AD, June 28th. Rev. Bill Maupin, leader of a small Tuscon, AZ, sect named Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation preached that the world would come to and end on his self-named Rapture Day. Fifty gullible idiots gathered in a field, only to have their dreams of death dashed against the rocks of reality.

1981AD, August 7th. Bill Maupin revised his prediction to be 40 days later, just as Noah's Ark was supposedly raised in 40 days to safety in mythology.

1982AD Charles Taylor's Rapture prediction number five.

1982AD Canadian prophet Doug Clark preached that Jesus would return and rapture his Christians away from the tribulation in 1982. He also used the Jupiter Effect, ley lines and pyramidology.

1982AD In a frightening display of physics not of this universe, the Jupiter Effect would pull Mars out of its orbit and send it crashing into Earth. The Jupiter Effect has happened over fifty million times in the lifetime of Earth, four thousand times in the history of humanity and twelve times in the history of Christianity. The Jupiter Effect was merely another name for a loose alignment of the planets. But it sounded better. The actual forces involved are real, but are well over a thousand times smaller than the difference in the effect of the moon between its greatest distance and its nearest distance. Credit to Emil Gaverluk of the Southwestern Radio Church for this wonderful ignorance of reality.

1982AD, March 10th. A poor astronomical confluence (way inferior to the ones in 1962 and 2000) would destroy Earth via various means. "The Jupiter Effect" by John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann "documented" this. Gribbin's professional scientific career was destroyed by his crackpot claims.

1982AD, June 25th. British artist Benjamine Creme, founder of Tara Center (www.shareintl.org) took out an ad in the LA Times claiming "THE CHRIST IS NOW HERE" on April 25th, referring to the Second Coming within two months. Some quipped that he made a typographical error and meant to place "THE CHRIST IS NOWHERE".

1982AD, Autumn. Pat Robertson, ever the bastion of truth, justice and bombing third world countries, predicted the end of the world would happen in late 1982. With his typical professional integrity in 1980, he enthused "I guarantee you by the end of 1982 there is going to be a judgement on the world."

1983AD The End Times News Digest predicted nuclear holocaust caused by the USA attacking the USSR (various religious reasons, namely the USSR's state atheism), and the USSR retaliating, in this year. Charles Taylor's sixth Rapture prediction also failed in this year.

1983AD In his 1968 book "The Population Bomb", Paul Ehrlich predicted ecological catastrophe from overpopulation in 1983.

1984AD, October 4th. The end of the world according to Jehovah's Witnesses. High interest loans, etc...see the 1975 entry.

1985AD. Lester Sumrall spent over 200 pages in "I Predict 1985" explaining why the world ended in this year. He never explained why he was wrong.

1985AD. Chalk up number 7 for Charles Taylor.

1985AD. The Neo-Nazi group Socialist National Aryan People's Party were founded on the 'fact' that Jesus would return in 1985.

1985AD, March 25th. World War III begin, according to the doomsday cult Family of God. The cult was a small splinter cell of the Urantia Foundation, a strange group who have a tedious, rambling 2,000 page tome as their scripture. Rather like Christianity.

1985AD, August. Retired NATO General Sir John Hackett wrote a well written and well thought 1977 bestselling book as a warning to world leaders wbout what could happen based on world developments at the time. His book is self-admittedly a slippery-slope fallacy but on no one stage does it seem outlandish or unreasonable. This was, after all, during the USA's very aggressive foreign policy times and shortsighted USSR leadership, leaving the West to see the USSR as vulnerable. George Bush, US president in the late '80s, had once considered an invasion of the USSR "inevitable, my God-given task is to purge the world of the tools of evil". His son wouldn't be much saner. This entry is only included because, while a work of fiction, it was based on actual events and made an actual (if conditional) prediction.

1986AD. Charles Taylor makes it an octet.

1987AD, April 29th. Leland Jensen of the...read the 1980 entry. This time it was Comet Halley.

1987AD. Charles Taylor's ninth.

1987AD, August 17th. New Age author José Argüelles claimed that the Battle of Armageddon was certain unless 144,000 (that number again...) gathered in set places on Earth to "resonate in harmony" and be spirited to Heaven. We're still here, thanks to their brave sacrifice.

1988AD A puppet state of the USA, Israel, had existed for 40 years (a Biblical generation), so the Rapture would take place. That and fighting proxy wars for control of oil.

1988AD Charles Taylor scores ten.

1988AD Doug Clark (see 1982) wrote another book, hoodwinked more people, earned more money, claimed the Rapture "possibly 1987 or 1988".

1988AD Yet another doomsayer in 1988, TV prophet JR Church claimed that each Psalm in the Bible referred to a year in the 20th century, so Psalm 1 was 1901. He used a bizzare to anyone not Christian "pick and choose" method to pick only those events that supported his views, and ignore all the others. Of course, Christians have been using this method for years to filter the Bible according to what they want it to mean, from massacring Aztecs to opposing birth control.

1988AD The spectacularly bad selling book "Christ Returns by 1988: 101 Reasons Why" is only notable because of a PR campaign aimed at the Bible Belt in the USA. Colin Deal covered his costs, and then some, and laughed all the way to the bank.

1988AD, September 13th. The bestselling book "88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be In 1988" from the quill of Edgar Whisenant eased a load of many a Christian wallet by predicting 11th or 13th of September using a perfectly logical odd-numbers Bible scheme where the numbers that didn't support him were ignored and explained away over several pages. When his prediction failed, he released another book "The Final Shout, Rapture Report" and the same gullible idiots bought that one too, proving that an idiot never learns and a fool doesn't deserve to keep his money. Over 90 radio stations advertised the imminent end and caused minor panic in the USA.

1988AD, September 15th, 10:55am. Whisenant's failed prediction two days prior led to him being adamant that the Rapture would occur on this day and time.

1988AD, October 3rd. Whisenant didn't know when to quit, gave another date.

1988AD, November. British "witch" Dot Griffiths predicted a world holocaust for this year.

1989AD Charles Taylor's eleventh.

1989AD In the 1968 book "Guide to Survival", Salem Kirban used Bishop Ussher's calculations to discover that God intended the Rapture to be in 1989.

1989AD Oklahoma City's Southwest Radio Church published a pamphlet in 1978 entitled "Timetable for the 1980s" with all sorts of Christian apocalyptic mythology scheduled. The gap between mythology and reality remained a gap.

1989AD, September 30th. Whisenant gave another date. Also for this date Hart Armstrong, president of Christian Communications, was convinced and would try to convince anyone who'd listen, that this day would be the Rapture.

1990AD Influential Baptist preacher Peter Ruckman got quite a few Baptists in a panic frenzy when he predicted and preached the End Times in 1990.

1990AD Crackpot prophecy writer Kai Lok Chan of Singapore foresaw the Second Coming no later than 1990.

1990AD The book "The Survival of Civilization" by Hamaker & Weaver predicted the end of the civilization in 1990.

1990AD, April 23rd. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant (www.tsl.org) foresaw the well known nuclear armageddon that happened on this day, and bravely convinced all her followers to sell their worldly goods and move with her to a ranch in Montana, giving her most of their money.

1991AD Fundie author Reginald Dunlop predicted the Rapture this year. Some things never go out of style.

1991AD Louis Farrakhan claimed the Gulf War was the War of Armageddon.

1991AD, March 31st. A pretty crazy Australian cult believed Jesus would walk through Sydney Harbour as he arrived on this day.

1992AD Charles Taylor. 'Nuff said.

1992AD, April 26th. Doug Clark, mentioned twice already in this list, rambled on Trinity Broadcasting Network's "Praise The Lord" that World War III would begin within 3 years. He made these claims on April 26th, 1989.

1992AD, April 29th. When the LA race riots broke out after the Rodney King trial, the white supremacist group Aryan Nations thought it was the apocalyptic race war they'd been waiting for. Which just proves that nothing quite makes a man stupid like religion or racism and when you have both, you have real entertainment.

1992AD, September 28th. Dorothy A Miller wrote a rambling tome about the Second Coming arriving on Rosh Hashanah, 1992.

1992AD, September 28th. Deserving of its own entry, Rollen Steward, insane born-again Christian (why are these nutjobs invariably Christian?) who climbed to his 15 minutes of fame by holding up "John 3:16" signs at sporting events, was convinced the Rapture would happen on this day. When it inevitably didn't like any other prediction made by a Christian, he went absolutely insane. He set off stink bombs in churches and bookstores, wrote apocalyptic letters in his one man mission to make people believe in his version of his God. Before his life sentence for kidnapping, that is.

1992AD, October 28th. Yet more Christian crazies in Korea went bonkers in a mass Hyoo-Go (Rapture) movement. One cult, led by Lee Jang Rim, took it even more seriously. Rim was convicted of fraud when his predictions didn't happen.

1992AD, October 28th. The Mission For The Coming Days cult may have had up to 10,000 members. They gathered in houses and on bridges in over a dozen countries. Any link with Hyoo-Go is unknown, except in membership of the stupid club.

1993AD David Berg, leader of the Children of God, claimed the Second Coming would take place in 1993.

1993AD November 14th. Soviet authorities saved the world by arresting many of the cult members of the Great White Brotherhood, who intended follow Maria Devi Khrystos to Kiev to celebrate God's ending of the world.

1993AD, December 9th. By adding 51.57 years to the date the UN recognised Israel, then subtracting 7, James T Harmon derived the date of the Rapture. Because the UN is God's authority on Earth. He also gave 1996, 2012 and 2022 as alternative dates.

1994AD R Riley in "1994: The Year of Destiny" predicted the Rapture. Charles Taylor got one in too. Om Saleem, arabic Christian, prophecised the antichrist coming before 1994, and the Rapture in 1994.Aad Verbeek, Jan Westein and Pier Westein predicted the Second Coming in their book "Time for His Coming".

1994AD May 2nd. Neal Chase of the Bahá'ís Under the Provisions of the Covenant (where have we heard those before?) claimed New York would be nuked on March 23th and the Battle of Armageddon would take place 40 days later.

1994AD, June 9th. Pastor John Hinkle was told by God that the Apocalypse would take place on this day. God said he'd "Rip the evil out of this world". When the prophecy failed, Hinkle claimed it's only the beginning and the happenings are invisible. Either he's telling falsehoods or God is.

1994AD, July 25th. Brian Marsden announced Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was on a course to collide with Jupiter. Sister Marie Gabriel Paprocski "prophecised" two months later that a comet would hit Jupiter, causing the "biggest cosmic explosion in the history of mankind", and bringing an end to Earth. She even got the date wrong, Marsden predicted from rather more accurate orbital elements the 16th and, indeed, it did.

1994AD, September 23rd. Reginald Dunlop claimed that this was the last date "encoded" in the Great Pyramid of Giza, so naturally the world had to end.

1994AD, September 27th. Harold Camping, head of Family Radio in Oakland and host of the station's Christian talk show, wrote a tome over five hundred pages long explaining why the Tribulation would end on the 6th of September, the Second Coming being on the 27th. He also predicted the 29th and the 2nd of October as being possible and didn't publish a five hundred page rambling apology when he got it completely wrong.

1995AD Armageddon according to the Watchers In The Wilderness cult. The Second Coming according to J R Church, using his strange Psalms theory.

1995AD, March 31st. Harold Camping's fourth date. He quitted setting dates after this one.

1996AD, James Harmon's second date.

1996AD, September. Preacher Marvin Byers of Guatemala expected the Second Coming.

1996AD, November. The Second Coming according to the wonderfully named Salty Dok's book "Blessed Hope 1996".

1996AD, December 13th. Branch Davidians, what was left of them, predicted the resurrection of David Koresh.

1996AD, December 17th. Magician, psychic and general crank Sheldon Nidle predicted the Earth would be destroyed by millions of space ships. Presumably to make way for a bypass.

1997AD Mary Stewart Relfe spoke to God in her dreams. America "will burn" in 1993 and 1994, followed by the Second Coming in 1997.

1997AD Superdave The Wonderchemist, in a parody of numerology, predicted the end of the world in 1997 through amusing and firmly tongue-in-cheek numerolody.

1997AD, April 26th. Robert Wadsworth, editor of "Biblical Astronomy", creationist, geocentrist and Biblical Literalist predicted the beginning of the Tribulation. These people still exist?

1997AD, March. The first bright comet in nearly 30 years brings with it a wave of hysteria. Richard Michael Schiller widely claimed an asteroid trailing the comet would destroy us all. Then 9 months later. Then maybe not at all, but we're all dead by the end of 1997 anyway.

1997AD, March 26th Heaven's Gate cult suicides. They believed a UFO trailing Comet Hale-Bopp would save their souls from Apocalypse. Note the similarity to the above entry? Amateur astronomer and crackpot Chuck Shramek mistook a common star in a photo of the comet he made for a "Saturn-like object" associated with the comet. With the help of Art Bell and the Internet, he spread this myth around the world.

1997AD, May 5th. The Solar System will enter the magical Photon Belt, a mystical energy field floating around in space. Depending on who's making the claim, we may all die, all become superhuman, be enslaved by aliens...etc. etc. Some crazies still believe we're doomed by this magical field any time soon.

1997AD October. Brother Kenneth Hagin noticed we hadn't had any Rapture prophecies for a few months, so supplied one for October 1997. How thoughtful.

1997AD, October 11th. Anonymous Internet-based prophet flooded many Usenet newsgroups with a lengthy rant about the Bible, the Equinox and numerology, giving this day as the end of times.

1997AD, October 23rd. 17th century Irish Archbishop James Ussher's delve into the nonsensical gibberish of the Book of Genesis gave us a Creation date for the world. 1997 was 6,000 years later so naturally we were all going to die. Religious whackos worldwide made various Armageddoraptureapocalypticsecondcoming predictions for 1997.

1997AD, November 27th. According to the Sacredotal Knights of National Security, a space alien interrogated by the CIA confessed that an alien army would attack Earth.

1998AD Larry Wilson of "Wake Up America Seminars" predicted the Second Coming around 1998, and between the Tribulation starting in 1994 and the Second Coming, an asteroid would hit Earth.

1998AD The Centro cult in the Philippines predicted the end of the world in 1998.

1998AD Donald Orsden's book "The Holy Bible - The Final Testament: What is the Significance of 666?" has this gem of perfectly sensible knowledge to share "Take your super computers, you scientists, and feed the number 666 into them. The output will be the proof God gives that 1998 is the year Jesus will take the faithful with him...."

1998AD Mental institute escapee (alright, I made that up) Henry Hall wrote a book of very strange religious fundamentalism laced with xenophobia and bigotry. In it, he derides atheists and liberals as the causes of all suffering in the world, while praising Ronald Reagan as the "wisest of all men" or even a messiah, sent by God to supervise the cleansing of Earth. He predicted the Rapture in 1991 and using the reliable method of "666+666=1998" predicted the end in 1998. He was assumably medicated not long after.

1998AD, January 8th. 31 members of the Solar Temple cult, headed by Geman psycho...logist Heide Fittkau-Garth were arrested by police on the island of Tenerife. They were planning a mass suicide because the world would end at 20:00 on that day, but their bodies would be picked up by a space ship and revived.

1998AD, March 8th. An Indian doomsday cult claimed the world would be destroyed by earthquakes on this day, the Indian subcontinent would sink into the ocean and Lord Vishnu would appear on Earth.

1998AD, March 31st. Hon-Ming Chen of the Taiwanese cult God's Salvation Church claimed God would appear in a flying saucer at 10:00 on this date. Moreover, God would look exactly like Hon-Ming Chen and would have made an appearance on TV, channel 18, every set in the world. Even those that don't have a channel 18. He based his cult in Garland, Texas because he thought "Garland" sounded like "God's Land". More proof that Texas is filled with crackpots.

1998AD, May 31st. Marilyn Agee, author of several doomsday books proclaimed TWO seperate Raptures in the same sentence! From her "The End of the Age" she, in the midst of very odd Biblical calculations, proclaimed "I expect Rapture I on Pentecost [May 31] in 1998 and Rapture II on the Feast of Trumpets [September 13] in 2007."

1998AD, May 31st. Tom Stewart's "1998: The Year of the Apocalypse" agrees with Agee's prediction.

1998AD, May 31st. Peter Hader, proving that most people have no idea what probability and statistics are, used "Bible Codes" to come up with the date of the Rapture.

1998AD, June 6th. Eli Eshoh (http://www.ishipress.com/worldend.htm) uses all kinds of numeric trickery to show the Rapture took place on this date.

1998AD, June. Marilyn Agee "corrected" her date numerous times. 6th, 7th, 14th, 21st of June and 20th of September are known examples.

1998AD, July 5th. Disappointed that they had no End Times prediction, the Church of the SubGenius (www.subgenius.com) decided that the 5th of June was X-Day. Xists from Planet X would arrive in flying, and landing, and swimming, and floating saucers, destroy humanity but only ordained clergy of the SubGenius who'd paid their dues to the Church would be "ruptured" away. When that didn't happen, the Church made XX-Day in July 5th 1999, where the same would happen again.

1998AD, September 30th. Using Edgar Cayce's propecies (which worked so well), Kirk Nelson wrote a long tedious book "The Second Coming 1998"

1998AD October 10th. Monte Kim Miller, leader of the Denver cult Concerned Christians, formed his group as he was convinced that the Apocalypse would occur on this date, with Denver the first city to be destroyed. The cult members mysteriously disappeared afterwards; but later resurfaced in Israel, where they were deported on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack at the end of 1999. Miller had also claimed he will die in the streets of Jerusalem in December 1999, to be resurrected three days later.

1998AD, November. Ron Reese had "overwhelming evidence" in his writing that November was the month of the Second Coming.

1998, December 12th. Insane Linda Newkirk (www.prophecies.org) was told by God that "USA will be invaded by Russia, China, an Arab Alliance, and even the UN and NATO. It will take place at around 1:45 AM on this date, and 75 million people will die immediately. Huge cities will be nothing more than potholes. Places like San Francisco will be eradicated immediately. Millions more will die of starvation and all kinds of diseases brought about by chemical, nerve and biological warfare." When the date passed, the quote vanished from her site and was replaced by drivel about the world ending in 2000, which was a convenient bandwagon. Now the site is blathering some mountain junk. And selling a book.

1999AD George Washington (yes, that one) saw a beautiful woman in a vision, who showed him America being destroyed in 1999, where after it was reduced to ashes and smoke, an angel sprinkled water on he world and peace reigned eternal.

1999AD After a break of a few years, both the Seventh Day Adventists and the Jehovah's Witnesses claim the end for 1999. They were probably feeling left out of the Y2K bandwagon.

1999AD Astrologer (hehe) Jeane Dixon's book "The Call To Glory" predicted 1999AD as being the peak of the Antichrist's power, where Russian armies would capture the Middle East and then obliterate all the coastal cities of the USA with a nuclear strike. The Antichrist, of course, was born on February 5th 1962.

1999AD Edgar Cayce appears again, this time with a pole-shift causing various disasters as well as World War III.

1999AD Charles Berlitz had a little following with his book "Doomsday: 1999 A.D." where he claimed any one of a number of disasters would strike us in 1999.

1999AD Internet crackpot Dore Williamson, incarnation of Christ, God's representative on Earth and raving lunatic, claimed the world would end in 1999 repeatedly, due to a biological war started by President Clinton.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ptqubskqmlcksd94c8...80c6h75jlj%404ax.com

1999AD March 25th. 18 months before, Hal Lindsey on the TV show "International Intelligence Briefing" claimed that Russia would invade Israel within 18 months. Fundamentalist Christians, such as Baptists, Methodists and some Catholics believe that Russia's invasion of Israel is predicted in the Bible, and will be the Battle of Armageddon. Some Muslims also believe this, though they don't have a problem with it.

1999AD April 3rd. HJ Hoekstra's website (sadly no longer online) was perhaps one of the more entertaining of all crackpot websites. He believed we live on the inside of a hollow Earth and used numerology to calculate the Rapture on April 3rd, 1999.

1999AD, May 8th. Mass panic in India due to an astronomical pamphlet claiming severe natural disasters on this date.

1999AD, May 22nd. Another date from Marilyn Agee.

1999AD, June 20th. Another date from Marilyn Agee.

1999AD, June 30th. The Art Bell radio show has always been a gathering house for fringe lunatics. Charles Moore raved on this show about the Third Secret of Fatima and how the prophecy showed an asteroid would kill us all on the 30th of June.

1999AD, July. Michel Nostradame, 16th century French soothsayer:
The year 1999, seven months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror:
To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

He's better known by his latinized name.

1999AD, July. During the weekend of 3-4 July 1999, the Stella Maris Gnostic Church, a Colombian doomsday cult, went into the Sierra Nevada mountains to be picked up by a UFO which will save them from the end of times at the turn of the century. They disappeared and haven't been seen since. Maybe the UFO did beam them up?

1999AD, July 4th. Some baseless rumour on the Internet (always quoting Nostradame, above) circulated about this being the date of the end.

1999AD, July 5th. Not to be out-done, the Church of the SubGenius held XX-Day on this date. Then predicted XXX-Day in July 2000. The end of the world is an annual event! http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

1999AD, July 7th. According to Eileen Lakes (http://www.utopia-net.org/English/intro1.html) the world would tip over 90 degrees and give everyone a "water baptism". After it didn't she deleted all references to it.

1999AD, July 24th. Popular date for Nostradame's "King of Terror".

1999AD, July 28th. Using the clear messages in crop circles, meteor showers, eclipses and Nostradame's gibberish, Gerald L. Vano confidently predicts the Tribulation, then the destruction of Rome during November.

1999AD, August. The total solar eclipse of this month sparked off quite a few lunatics. The Universal and Human Energy Cult predicted an end in August.

1999AD, August 6th. Branch Davidians believed David Koresh would return 2,300 days after his death. He didn't.

1999AD, August 11th. During the week between August 11 and August 18 a series of astronomical events took place: the last total solar eclipse of the millennium (Aug 11), the Grand Cross planetary formation (Aug 18), the Perseid meteor shower (Aug 12), the swingby of NASA's plutonium-bearing Cassini space probe (Aug 17-18), and Comet Lee's visit to the inner solar system. Add to this the fact that some of these events are taking place before the end of July according to the Julian calendar, and you have a recipe for rampant apocalyptic paranoia. Fashion designer Paco Rabanne claimed that Mir would crash into Paris on August 11. It didn't. Others said that a monstrous asteroid or comet, previously unseen, would become visible during the eclipse and strike the Earth thereafter. Nothing happened.

1999AD, August 14th. A crackpot website (www.escape666.com) predicted a comet would hit Earth between the 11th and 14th of August.

1999AD, August 18th. Charles Criswell King, in his 1968 bestseller "Criswell Predicts: From Now to the Year 2000" claimed the end of time was on this day. He made a lot more predictions in the book too. None of them worked.

1999AD, August 18th. Many alarmists were convinced that the Cassini space probe would crash into the Earth on August 18. Some even went so far as to say it would poison a third of the world's population with its plutonium, fulfilling the prophecy of Revelation 8:11 concerning a star named Wormwood ("Chernobylnik" is the Ukrainian word for a certain subspecies of the wormwood plant). But as expected, Cassini passed by the Earth just fine and dandy.

1999AD, August 19th. Professor Hideo Itakawa predicted the end of the world.

1999AD, August 24th. Astrologer Valerie James wrote that the configuration of the planets which predicted the coming of Christ will once again happen on August the 24th. Which was nice.

1999AD, September. According to Escape666.com, Nostradamus's King of Terror was to descend on Earth in September, heralding the beginning of the Tribulation and the Rapture. Escape666 said, regarding Nostradamus's infamous quatrain X.72: "now we know EXACTLY when he meant: SEPTEMBER 1999." However, as the end of September approached, they changed their date to October 12.

1999AD September 3rd. Judgement Day according to the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. Only members of the cult would survive. They did. But we did too.

1999AD September 9th. "9/9/99" according to some Y2K doomsayers, would crash computers. Not a single machine crashed.

1999AD, September 11th. Rosh Hashanah 5760 (this date) is the date of the Rapture according to Bonnie Gaunt's Bible studies.

1999AD, September 11th. Jason Hommel spammed Usenet with claims that the Rapture was to take place on this date, and used a plethora of over-imaginitive numerology and unorthodox scriptural interpretation to arrive at this conclusion. He used the famous "know not the day nor the hour" verse to paradoxically pinpoint the date of the Rapture. But in a bit of honesty rare among doomsayers, Hommel actually admitted he was wrong and apologized "...the associative thought processes that lead one to accomplish rational thinking and figuring were completely absent from this process."

1999AD, September 11th. Michael Rood also jumped on the Rosh Hashanah bandwagon. He claimed that this day is the first day of the Hebrew calendar year 6001, and after it failed, he changed the date to April 5, 2000. In reality, this day was the first day of 5760, but Michael claimed that there was a mistake in the calendar.

1999AD, September 23rd. Using Nostradame's writing, the Bible and astrology, Stefan Paulus wrote a book on why a comet would hit earth on this day. What a mix.

1999AD, October. The Korean cult Hyoo-Go (see October 1992) remaining members predicted the demise of us all in October 1999.

1999AD, October. Jack Van Impe, an enthusiastic and highly entertaining utter lunatic, predicted the Rapture and Second Coming.

1999AD, October 12th. Escape666.com rescheduled their King of Terror to this day. Sadly their website was taken over by squatters years ago.

1999AD, November. Wholesale obliteration, according to Richard Kieninger's 1963 book "The Ultimate Frontier".

1999AD, November. Kevin Brent Pryor, in a glorious case of absolure raving idiocy, prophecises that Jesus will be reborn in California in the form of a girl called Uni. This is because Jesus' real birthday is July 4th and Kevin himself was John the Baptist.

1999AD, November 7th. Complete crackpot Richard Hoagland (www.enterprisemission.com) is another of the highly entertaining "People don't take this seriously, do they?" kook variety of nutcase. He predicted three objects to strike the Earth on this day. Seriously, go visit his website. It's pure hilarity.

1999AD, November 29th. Dumitru Duduman was told that America would be destroyed on this date, by a vision he recieved in 1996. Those mushrooms are pretty potent.

1999AD, December 6th. Cutting Edge Ministries (www.cuttingedge.org) describe how those evil Illuminati people are planning to kickstart the End Times by crashing Galileo into Jupiter, the plutonium of the RTGs will explode like a nuclear bomb, turning Jupiter into a second sun and roasting us all. People, you can't buy this sort of entertainment.
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1260.cfm

1999AD, December 25th. Second Coming according to Martin Hunter, a doomsayer of little note.

1999AD, December 31st. Hon-Ming Chen's cult, upon missing their appointment with God's UFO, relocated to New York and claimed that a nuclear holocaust would destroy Europe and Asia in the final months of 1999.

2000AD (Ohhhh boy) End of the world according to Hal Lindsey (another entry in 1988), Mormons, Madame Blavatsky (founder of Theosophy), Sir Isaac Newton, Ruth Montgomory, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Edgar Cayce, Ed Dobson's book, Lester Sumrall's book, Shoko Ashara's lectures, Petrus Olvi (in 1297!), Sun Bear (an American mystic), Jonathan Edwards (an 18th Century fire and brimstone preacher), William Kamm (aka Little Pebble, leader of Australian doomsday cult), Texe Marrs (Fundamentalist conspiracy theorist), The Convulsionaries (18th century French radical sect), Timothy Dwight (President of Yale University), Martin Luther (changed it to 1600 from 2000), Sukyo Mahikari (Japanese cult), Ca Van Lieng's Vietnamese cult (Shame they comitted mass suicide in October 1993)...and many, many others.

2000AD In 1917, the Virgin Mary appeared to three children in Portugal. She claimed Satan would rule the world in the year 2000.

2000AD The End of Days according to most Mormons, but the splinter group Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pulled their kids out of school and prepared for the big day in a big way.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/09/12/polygamists.schools.ap/ is in reference to it, but seems to ramble more about polygamy than it does about the subject at hand.

2000AD January 1st. Planes fell from the sky, as did Jesus, Clinton declared himself US dictator, Nuclear missiles flew, civilisation collapsed, the tax rate doubled and Barry Manilow sang in concert. One of these terrifying events actually did happen.

2000AD January 1st. Very old computers stored the date with two digits, so would believe 2000 was 1900. This "Y2K bug" was to bring civilization to its knees. But it didn't, because any old systems that would be affected by it were simply replaced by modern equipment. This didn't stop fools from being parted from their money by people selling "survival kits", analogous to the "comet pills" of 1910.

2000AD January 1st. Christian apocalyptists House of Prayer expected Christ to descend onto Mount Olive on this day. The Israeli government deported them all.

2000AD January 1st. Philippine cult Tunnels of Salvation dug a warren of tunnels where their leader, Cerferino Quinte stockpiled a year's supplies for 700 people.

2000AD January 1st. Jerry Falwell: "God may be preparing to confound our language, to jam our communications, scatter our efforts, and judge us for our sin and rebellion against his lordship. We are hearing from many sources that January 1, 2000, will be a fateful day in the history of the world."

2000AD January 16th. Dr. Marion Derlette, a religious scholar, claimed the world was to end on this day following a series of natural and manmade disasters starting in 1997.

2000AD February 29th. This day was the exception to the exception to the four year leap-day rule, so Y2K Bug types were hyping it that maybe some programmers didn't account for it. Nothing happened.

2000AD March. The Rapture took place in March 2000, three and half years after the Second Coming, according to Marvin Byers. Just so you all know.

2000AD April 5th. Michael Rood's September 11th 1999 prediction was rescheduled by him to this date.

2000AD April 6th. Second Coming according to the Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of The Last Days, a Mormon sect.

2000AD May 5th. Richard Noone, archaeologist and crackpot claimed in his book "5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster" that ice was building up in Antarctica and would "unbalance" the world, and the planetary alignment that took place over 1999-2001 was centred on this date, so the Earth would tip up and ice would come crashing down on all the continents. Because that's how gravity works, duh.

2000AD May 5th. Being the date of the closest conjunction, most of the planets appeared quite close to each other in the sky. Many crackpots made up all kinds of ideas about this one.

2000AD May 9th. Toshio Hiji, having analyzed the ramblings of Nostradame, announced that the world would flood on this date. As if his predicted alien attack on October 3rd 1999 wasn't enough.

2000AD June. A Ugandan cult "World Message Last Warning Church" claimed the end was ready to come in June. After they changed it from 1999.

2000AD June 10th. Marilyn Agee's ninth Rapture date.

2000AD August 20th. Marilyn Agee's tenth Rapture date.

2000AD July 5th. XXX-Day from the Church of The SubGenius. "THIS time there WILL be saucers!"

2000AD September 17th. A bunch of questionably sane pyramidologists derived this date as the end of times or whatever based on the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

2000AD September 19th. Phil Stone expects his self-named "Coastlands Disaster" to happen on or around this date. He took his reasoning from that great bastion of truth and accuracy, you guessed it, the Bible.

2000AD September 29th. Jewish cult Love The Jew claimed the world would end on Rosh Hashanah, when Russia decides to nuke everyone.

2000AD October. Elizabeth Joyce, crackpot, fraud, insane woman and purveyor of far too many words (http://new-visions.com) said, in hundreds of words, that nuclear war was to happen in October 2000. She's predicted so many different things that it's hard to keep up. The Sun splitting into two was one of my personal favourites.

2000AD October 9th. Christian prophet Grant Jeffrey considered this date as "termination point for the last days".

2000AD December 31st. After Joseph Kibweteere's first doomsday prediction a year earlier failed, 600 members of the Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God cult sealed themselves in a church and burned it down, them inside, on March 17th 2000. Most people prefer to roast lesser life forms only before eating them.

2001AD May 5th The New Age doomsday cult Aquarian Concepts Community in Arizona gave this date as the last possible date for everyone except them to die.

2001AD May 28th. Marilyn Agee quit trying to predict the Rapture and moved on to the Tribulation.

2001AD July. End of the world according to the Seventh-Day Adventists.

2001AD July 5th. XXXX Day.

2001AD September 11th. Strange omission from our prophetic community, don't you think?

2001AD September 18th. A Rosh Hashanah Rapture by the King of Doomsayers, Charles Taylor.

2001AD November 3rd. Marilyn Agee gives us another Rapture prediction. She's competing with Charles Taylor.

2001AD December 19th. Yet abother Marilyn Agee date, this time the Tribulation starting on this day.

2001AD Pyramidologist Georges Barbarin used the Great Week concept to predict Christ's Millennium in 2001.

2001AD The Unarius Academy of Science, a quasi-religious cult, believed "Space brothers" were going to land their UFOs in California. When they didn't, the cult responded that Earth isn't ready so they went home. Right.

2001AD Islamic numerologist Tynetta Muhammad claimed 2001 would be the year for Allah to end his little game.

2002AD, April 4th. Another website that has to be seen to be believed. Mike Keller, the same one who claimed Y2K would bring Martial Law to the USA, then claimed some "doomsgate" would open half a second before midnight, Israeli time, then followed immediately by the Second Coming then nuclear war.
http://www.zianet.com/titanic/option%201.htm#option1

2002AD The Church Universal and Triumphant cult leader Elizabeth Clare Prophet claimed 2002 was the end of the world, after the 12 year nuclear war that ended in 2002.

2002AD July 5th 5X Day.

2002AD July 19th. Marilyn Agee's n-th rapture prediction.

2003AD, May 5th. Nuwaubian cult, in Georgia, believed a UFO would drop by to beam up true believers.

2003AD May 13th. Nancy Lieder of ZetaTalk.com believed some Planet-X would pass by Earth this day causing a pole-shift.

2003AD May 15th Pana Wave, a Japanese cult (and the inspiration for Lieder's nonsense) believed a 10th planet would pass Earth on this date, doing the same thing.

2004AD July 5th 6X Day.

2004AD Taoist prophet Ping Wu believed that major world events in 1999 would lead to WWIII in 2000 followed by a rebirth from the ashes in 2004.

2004AD Pyramidologist AT Mann predicts the end of times within three years of 2004, earlier or later.

2005AD October 18th. Beginning of Christ's Millennium according to Tom Stewart's "1998: Year of the Apocalypse".

2006AD An atomic holocaust started by Syria is to take place between the years 2000 and 2006, according to Michael Drosnin's book The Bible Codes (O'Shea p.178). Here's an excerpt from Drosnin's masterpiece: "I checked 'World War' and 'atomic holocaust' against all three ways to write each Hebrew year for the next 120 years. Out of 360 possible matches for each of the two expressions, only two years matched both - 5760 and 5766, in the modern calendar the years 2000 and 2006. Rips later checked the statistics for the matches of 'World War' and 'atomic holocaust' with those two years and agreed that the results were 'exceptional.'" We'll have to take his word for it.

2006AD, September 12. A Kenyan cult calling itself "The House of Yahweh" believed the world was to end in a conflict between the USA and North Korea becoming the Battle of Armageddon. Mosheh Sang took his followers into a cave and blamed a difference in time zones for the war not starting. "Yahweh" is the stated name of the featured deity in the Old Testament/Torah.
This cult is a worldwide thing, but it seems only the Kenyan sect held doomsday beliefs. They were founded in Abilene, Texas according to their website (www.yahweh.com) which just proves yet again that no good can come from Texas.

2007AD September 13. More Rapturous Marilyn Agee Prophecies. With an asteroid this time.

2010AD End of the world according to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. (www.golden-dawn.org)

2012AD, December 23rd. End of the world according to the first scholars to decipher the Mayan calendar. They got the calendar almost entirely wrong, but that didn't stop the myth spreading.

~2020AD Saint Malachy prophecised that there would only be 112 more Popes after 1143. Pope Benedict XIV is the 111th. The last Pope will be named Peter of Rome.

2033AD Doomsayers who's 2000 predictions didn't work are starting to target 2033, the 2000th anniversary of the Crucifixion.