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End Of The World Is Not D: 1673 DES: This theologian predicted a comet
C: William Aspinwall colliding with the Earth this year.
New To Fake News and DES: This Fifth Monarchist claimed the

Millennium would begin by this year. D: 1736
Con Artists C: Cotton Mather
D: 1688 DES: Mather's third and final prediction for the
Continued from Page 42 C: John Napier end of the world.
DES: This mathematician calculated the end of

D: 1 Feb 1624 the world would be this year based on D: 1757
C: London astrologers calculations from the Book of Revelation. C: Emanuel Swedenborg
DES: The same astrologers who predicted the DES: Swedenborg, a former Lutheran, claimed
deluge of 1 February 1524, recalculated the date D: 1689 that the Last Judgement occurred in the spiritual
to 100 years later after their first prophecy C: Pierre Jurieu world this year.
failed. DES: This prophet predicted that Judgement
Day would occur this year. D: 19 May 1780
D: 1648 C: Connecticut General Assembly members,
C: Sabbatai Zevi D: 1694 New Englanders
DES: Using the kabbalah, this rabbi from C: John Mason DES: The sky turning dark during the day was
Turkey proclaimed that the Messiah would come DES: This Anglican priest predicted the interpreted as a sign of the end times. The
during that year. Millennium would begin by this year. primary cause of the event is believed to have
been a combination of smoke from forest fires, a
D: 1651 D: 1694 thick fog, and cloud cover.
C: Unknown author from Lübeck, Germany C: Johann Heinrich Alsted
DES: The apocalypse maps tell of an Antichrist, DES: This Calvinist minister predicted the D: 1789
the rise of Islam and other events following Millennium would begin by this year. C: Pierre d'Ailly
Judgement Day that was predicted to occur in DES: The year 1789 would bring the coming of
1651. D: 1694 the Antichrist, according to this 14th-century
C: Johann Jacob Zimmermann cardinal.
D: 1654 DES: Believed that Jesus would return and the
C: Helisaeus Roeslin world would end this year. D: 1792 /1794
DES: This physician made a prediction that the C: Shakers
world would end this year based on a nova that D: 1697 DES: The Shakers, a Christian sect founded in
occurred in 1572. C: Cotton Mather 18th century England, predicted the world
DES: This Puritan minister predicted the world would end in 1792 and then in 1794.
D: 1656 would end this year. After the prediction failed,
C: Christopher Columbus he revised the date of the end two more times. D: 19 Nov 1795
DES: In his Book of Prophecies (1501), C: Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
Columbus predicted that the world would end D: 1700 DES: While campaigning for Richard Brothers'
during this year. C: John Napier release, Halhead proclaimed that the world
DES: Following his 1688 prediction, Napier would end on this day.
D: 1655–1657 recalculated his end of the world prediction to
C: Fifth Monarchists 1700 in A Plaine Discovery, a book published in D: 1793–1795
DES: This group of radical Christians predicted 1593. C: Richard Brothers
that the final apocalyptic battle and the DES: This retired sailor stated the Millennium
destruction of the Antichrist were to take place D: 1700 would begin between 1793 and 1795. He was
between 1655 and 1657. C: Henry Archer eventually committed to an insane asylum.
DES: In his 1642 work, The Personall Reigne
D: 1658 of Christ Upon Earth, Archer predicted the D: 1805
C: Christopher Columbus Second Coming of Jesus would occur in C: Christopher Love
DES: Columbus claimed that the world was approximately this year. DES: This Presbyterian minister predicted the
created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. destruction of the world by earthquake in 1805,
Assuming no year zero, that means the end D: 1705–1708 followed by an age of everlasting peace when
would come in 1658. C: Camisards God would be known by all.
DES: Camisard prophets predicted the end of
D: 1660 the world would occur in either 1705, 1706 or D: 1806
C: Joseph Mede 1708. C: Mary Bateman
DES: Mede claimed that the Antichrist had DES: In Leeds, England, in 1806 a hen began
appeared in 456, and the end would come in D: 1716 laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is
1660. C: Cotton Mather coming" was written. Eventually it was
DES: Revised prediction from Mather after his discovered to be a hoax. The owner, Mary
D: 1666 1697 prediction failed to come true. Bateman, had written on the eggs in a corrosive
C: Sabbatai Zevi ink so as to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs
DES: Following his failed prediction of 1648, D: 5 Apr 1719 back into the hen's oviduct.
Zevi recalculated the end of the Earth for this C: Jacob Bernoulli
year. DES: This mathematician predicted a comet D: 19 Oct 1814
would destroy the Earth on this day. C: Joanna Southcott
D: 1666 DES: This 64-year-old self-described prophet
C: Fifth Monarchists D: 1700–1734 claimed she was pregnant with the Christ child,
DES: The presence of 666 in the date, the death C: Nicholas of Cusa and that he would be born on October 19, 1814.
of 100,000 Londoners to bubonic plague, and DES: This cardinal predicted the end would She died later that year having not delivered a
the Great Fire of London led to superstitious occur between 1700 and 1734. child, and an autopsy proved she had not been
fears of the end of the world from some pregnant.
Christians. D: 16 Oct 1736
C: William Whiston (Continued on Page 54)