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End Of The World Is Not anticipation.
D: 992–995
New To Fake News and C: Various Christians D: 20 Feb 1524

DES: Good Friday coincided with the Feast of C: Johannes Stöffler
Con Artists the Annunciation; this had long been believed to DES: A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen
be the event that would bring forth the by this astrologer as a sign of the Millennium.
Eschatological predictions Antichrist, and thus the end-times, within three
years. D: 1524–1526
This section lists eschatological predictions, C: Thomas Müntzer
mostly by religious individuals or groups. Most D: 1 Jan 1000 DES: 1525 would mark the beginning of the
predictions are related to Abrahamic religions, C: Pope Sylvester II Millennium, according to this Anabaptist. His
with numerous predictions standing for the DES: Various Christian clerics predicted this followers were killed by cannon fire in an
eschatological events described on their date as the Millennium, including Pope uneven battle with government troops. He died
scriptures. Christian predictions typically refer Sylvester II. Riots occurred in Europe and under torture and was beheaded.
to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, pilgrims headed east to Jerusalem.
Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of D: 27 May 1528
Christ. D: 1033 C: Hans Hut
C: Various Christians DES: This German Anabaptist predicted the end
D - Date CE DES: Following the failure of the 1 January would occur on this date.
C - Claimants 1000, prediction, some theorists proposed that
DES - Description the end would occur 1000 years after Jesus' D: 1528
death, instead of his birth. C: Johannes Stöffler
D: 66–70 DES: A revised date from Stöffler after his 1524
C: Simon bar Giora, Jewish Essenes D: 1200–1260 prediction failed to come true.
DES: The Jewish Essene sect of ascetics saw the C: Joachim of Fiore
Jewish uprising against the Romans in 66–70 in DES: This Italian mystic determined that the D: 19 Oct 1533
Judea as the final end-time battle which would Millennium would begin between 1200 and C: Michael Stifel
bring about the arrival of the Messiah. By the 1260. DES: This mathematician calculated that
authority of Simon, coins were minted declaring Judgement Day would begin at 8:00 am on this
the redemption of Israel. D: 1284 day.
C: Pope Innocent III
D: 365 DES: Pope Innocent III (died 1216) predicted D: 1533
C: Hilary of Poitiers that the world would end 666 years after the rise C: Melchior Hoffman
DES: This early French bishop announced the of Islam. DES: This Anabaptist prophet predicted Christ's
end of the world would happen during this year. Second Coming to take place this year in
D: 1290 / 1335 Strasbourg. He claimed that 144,000 people
D: 375–400 C: Joachimites would be saved, while the rest of the world
C: Martin of Tours DES: After his 1260 prediction failed, the would be consumed by fire.
DES: This French bishop stated that the world followers of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled the
would end before 400 AD, writing, "There is no end of the world to 1290 and then again to 1335. D: 5 Apr 1534
doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. C: Jan Matthys
Firmly established already in his early years, he D: 1346–1351 DES: During the Münster rebellion, this
will, after reaching maturity, achieve supreme C: Various Europeans Anabaptist leader declared that the apocalypse
power." DES: The Black Death spreading across Europe would take place on this day. When the day
was interpreted by many as the sign of the end of came he led a failed attack against Franz von
D: 500 times. Waldeck and was decapitated.
C: Hippolytus of Rome, Sextus Julius Africanus,
Irenaeus D: 1368–1370 D: 1555
DES: All three predicted Jesus would return in C: Jean de Roquetaillade C: Pierre d'Ailly
this year, with one of the predictions being based DES: This French alchemist predicted the DES: Around 1400, this French theologian
on the dimensions of Noah's Ark. Antichrist was to come in 1366 and the wrote that 6845 years of human history had
Millennium would begin either in 1368 or 1370. already passed, and the end of the world would
D: 6 Apr 793 be in the 7000th year.
C: Beatus of Liébana D: 1378
DES: This Spanish monk prophesied the Second C: Arnaldus de Villa Nova D: 1585
Coming of Christ and the end of the world on DES: This Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was C: Michael Servetus
that day in front of a large crowd of people. to come during this year. DES: In his book The Restoration of
Christianity, the Spanish born reformer claimed
D: 800 D: 1504 that the Devil's reign in this world had started in
C: Sextus Julius Africanus C: Sandro Botticelli 325 AD, at the Council of Nicea, and would last
DES: This Christian historian revised his DES: This painter believed he was living during for 1260 years, thus ending in 1585.
prediction from the year 500 to 800. the Tribulation, and that the Millennium would
begin in three and a half years from 1500. He D: 1588
D: 799–806 wrote into his painting The Mystical Nativity C: Regiomontanus
C: Gregory of Tours that the Devil was loose and would soon be DES: This mathematician and astronomer
DES: This French bishop calculated the end chained. predicted the end of the world during this year.
would occur between 799 and 806.
D: 1 Feb 1524 D: 1600
D: 847 C: London astrologers C: Martin Luther
C: Thiota DES: A group of astrologers in London DES: Luther, a German priest and professor of
DES: This Christian declared in 847 that the predicted the world would end by a flood theology, predicted the end of the world would
world would end that year, though later starting in London, based on calculations made occur no later than 1600.
confessed the prediction was fraudulent and was the previous June. Twenty thousand Londoners
publicly flogged. left their homes and headed for higher ground in (Continued on Page 45)