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Dates Predicted for Apocalyptic Events Dates Predicted for EVENT: The founder of the Christian Israelite CLAIMANT: Camille Flammarion Apocalyptic Events Church calculated that the Millennium would EVENT: Predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet might destroy life on Earth, but begin this year. Continued from Page 8 not the planet itself. 82. DATE: 1873 CLAIMANT: Jonas Wendell 94. DATE: 1914 70. DATE: 1814, Dec 25 EVENT: In 1870, Wendell published his views CLAIMANT: Bible Student movement CLAIMANT: Joanna Southcott in the booklet entitled The Present Truth, or EVENT: "…the battle of the great day of God EVENT: This 64-year-old self-described Meat in Due Season concluding that the Second prophet claimed she was pregnant with the Advent was sure to occur in 1873. Almighty The date of the close of that "battle" Christ child, and that he would be born on is definitely marked in Scripture as October Christmas Day, 1814. She died on the day of her 83. DATE: 1874 1914. It is already in progress, its beginning dating from October, 1874." prediction, and an autopsy proved she was not CLAIMANT: Bible Student movement pregnant. EVENT: The first prediction of the end of the 95. DATE: 1915 world from the Bible Student movement started CLAIMANT: John Chilembwe 71. DATE: 1836 CLAIMANT: John Wesley by Charles Taze Russell. EVENT: This Baptist educator and leader of a predicted Nyasaland the in rebellion EVENT: Wesley, the founder of the Methodist 84. DATE: 1874 Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this CLAIMANT: Seventh Day Adventists Millennium would begin this year. year. EVENT: The newly formed Seventh Day 96. DATE: 1916 Adventists, a group founded by former CLAIMANT: Bible Student movement 72. DATE: 1843 Millerites, predicted the Second Coming would EVENT: World War I would terminate in CLAIMANT: Harriet Livermore be in this year. EVENT: The first of two years this preacher Armageddon and the rapture of the "saints". predicted the world would end. 85. DATE: 1878 97. DATE: 1918 CLAIMANT: Bible Student movement CLAIMANT: Bible Student movement 73. DATE: 1843, Apr 28 EVENT: The second prediction of the end of the EVENT: Another prediction of the end from the CLAIMANT: Millerites world from the Bible Student movement. Bible Student movement. EVENT: Although it was not officially endorsed by their leadership, many Millerites expected 86. DATE: 1881 98. DATE: 1920 the Second Coming to occur on this day. CLAIMANT: Mother Shipton CLAIMANT: Bible Student movement EVENT: This 15th-century prophet was quoted EVENT: In 1918, Christendom would go down 74. DATE: 1843, Dec 31 as saying "The world to an end shall come, In as a system to oblivion and be succeeded by CLAIMANT: Millerites EVENT: Many Millerites expected Jesus would eighteen hundred and eighty one" in a book revolutionary governments. God would "destroy the churches wholesale and the church published in 1862. In 1873 it was revealed to be return at the end of 1843. a forgery; however, this did not stop some members by the millions." Church members people from expecting the end. would "perish by the sword of war, revolution 75. DATE: 1844, Mar 21 and anarchy." The dead would lie unburied. In CLAIMANT: William Miller 87. DATE: 1881 EVENT: Miller predicted Christ would return CLAIMANT: Bible Student movement 1920 all earthly governments would disappear, with worldwide anarchy prevailing. on this day EVENT: The third prediction of the end of the world from the Bible Student movement. 99. DATE: 1925 76. DATE: 1844, Oct 22 CLAIMANT: Joseph F. Rutherford, Bible CLAIMANT: William Miller 88. DATE: 1890 EVENT: After Christ did not return on Mar 21, CLAIMANT: Wovoka Student movement EVENT: ...we may expect 1925 to witness the 1844, Miller then revised his prediction to 22 EVENT: The founder of the Ghost Dance return of these faithful men of Israel from the October 1844, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture. The realization that the predictions movement predicted in 1889 that the condition of death, being resurrected and fully restored to perfect humanity and made the Millennium would occur in 1890. were incorrect resulted in the Great Disappointment. visible, legal representatives of the new order of 89. DATE: 1892–1911 things on earth." CLAIMANT: Charles Piazzi Smyth 77. DATE: 1847 EVENT: This pyramidologist concluded from CLAIMANT: Harriet Livermore his research on the dimensions of the Great 100. DATE: 1925, Feb 13 CLAIMANT: Margaret Rowen EVENT: The second prediction of the end of the Pyramid of Giza that the Second Coming would EVENT: According to this Seventh-day world from this preacher. occur between 1892 and 1911. Adventist the angel Gabriel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end 78. DATE: 1847, Aug 7 90. DATE: 1899 CLAIMANT: George Rapp CLAIMANT: C. A. L. Totten at midnight on this date. EVENT: Rapp, the founder of the Harmony EVENT: Predicted that 1899 was a possible 101. DATE: 1935, Sep Society, preached that Jesus would return in his lifetime, even as he lay dying on Aug 7, 1847. date for the end of the world. CLAIMANT: Wilbur Glenn Voliva EVENT: This evangelist announced that "the 91. DATE: 1901 world is going to go 'puff' and disappear in 79. DATE: 1853–1856 CLAIMANT: Catholic Apostolic Church September, 1935. CLAIMANT: Various EVENT: This church, founded in 1831, claimed EVENT: Many people thought the Crimean War that Jesus would return by the time the last of its was the Battle of Armageddon. 102. DATE: 1936 12 founding members died. The last member CLAIMANT: Herbert W. Armstrong died in 1901. EVENT: The founder of the Worldwide Church 80. DATE: 1862 CLAIMANT: John Cumming 92. DATE: 1908 of God told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only EVENT: This Scottish clergyman stated it was CLAIMANT: Bible Student movement 6000 years since Creation in 1862, and that the EVENT: The fourth prediction of the end of the they would saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times. world would end. world from the Bible Student movement. 81. DATE: 1863 93. DATE: 1910 (Continued on Page 10) CLAIMANT: John Wroe