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Failed End-of-the-World Predictions Failed End-of-the-World Predictions That Were To Occur But Didn't. DATE (BCE) [1] 634 - Romans - Many Romans feared that the city would be destroyed in the 120th year of its founding. There was a myth that 12 eagles had revealed to Romulus a mystical number representing the lifetime of Rome, and some early Romans hypothesized that each eagle represented 10 years. [2] 389 - Romans - Some Romans believed that the mystical number revealed to Romulus represented the number of days in a year, so they expected Rome to be destroyed around 365 AUC (389 BCE). [16] 1184 - Various Christians - Various mathematician calculated that the Judgement Christian prophets foresaw the Antichrist Day would begin at 8:00am on this day. DATE (CE) coming in 1184. [33] 1534, Apr 5 - Jan Matthys - [17] 1186 - John of Toledo - Predicted Predicted that the Apocalypse would take place [3] 66-70 - Essenes - It is believed this the end of the world during 1186, based on the on this day and only the city of Münster would sect of Jewish ascetics saw the Jewish revolt alignment of many planets. be spared. against the Romans in 66-70 as the final end- [18] 1260 - Joachim of Fiore - The [34] 1555 - c. - Pierre d'Ailly - Around time battle. Italian mystic determined that the Millennium the year 1400, this French theologian wrote that [4] 2nd century - Montanists - Members of the Montanist movement, founded would begin between 1200 and 1260. 6845 years of human history had already [19] 1284 - Pope Innocent III - Pope passed, and the end of the world would be in the in 156, predicted that Jesus would return Innocent III (d. 1216) predicted that the world 7000th year. sometime during their lifetimes. would end 666 years after the rise of Islam. [35] 1585 - Michael Servetus - In his [5] 247 - Various Christians - The [20] 1290 - Joachimites - The followers book The Restoration of Christianity, the Roman government dramatically increased its of Joachim of Fiore rescheduled the End to Spanish born reformer claimed that the Devil's persecution of Christians in this year, so much 1290 when his 1260 prophecy failed. reign in this world began in 325 AD, at the so that many Christians believed that the End [21] 1335 - Joachimites - Second Council of Nicea, and will last for 1260 years, had arrived. revised date of Joachim of Fiore. thus ending in 1585. [6] 365 - Hilary of Poitiers - Announced [22] 1346-51 - Various Europeans - The [36] 1588 - Regiomontanus - Predicted that the end would happen that year. black plague spreading across Europe was the end of the world this year. [7] 375-400 - Martin of Tours - Stated interpreted by many as the sign of the end of [37] 1600 - Martin Luther - Predicted that the world would end before 400. Writing times. the end of the world would occur no later than ""There is no doubt that the Antichrist has [23] 1370 - Jean de Roquetaillade - The 1600. already been born. Firmly established already in Antichrist was to come in 1366 and the [38] 1624, Feb 1 - Astrologers - The his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, Millennium would begin in 1368 or 1370. same astrologers who predicted the deluge of achieve supreme power." [24] 1378 - Arnaldus de Villa Nova - February 1, 1524 recalculated the date to [8] 500 - Hippolytus of Rome, Sextus This Joachite wrote that the Antichrist was to February 1, 1624 after their first prophecy Julius Africanus, Irenaeus - All three predicted come in this year. failed. Jesus would return in the year 500. [25] 1504 - Sandro Botticelli - Believed [39] 1648 - Sabbatai Zevi - Using the [9] 793, Apr 6 - Beatus of Liébana - The he was living during the Tribulation, and that kabbalah this rabbi from Smyrna, Turkey, Spanish monk prophesied the second coming of the Millennium would begin in three and a half figured that the Messiah would come in this Christ and the end of the world that day to a years from 1500. year. crowd of people. [26] 1524, Feb 1 - Astrologers - [40] 1654 - Helisaeus Roeslin - This [10] 799-806 - Gregory of Tours - Predicted the world would end by a flood physician made a prediction that the world Calculated the End occurring between 799 and starting in London based on calculations made would end this year based on a nova that 806. the previous June. occurred in 1572. [11] 800 - Sextus Julius Africanus - [27] 1524, Feb 20 - Johannes Stöffler - [41] 1656 - Various Christians - Some Sextus Julius Africanus revised the date of A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen by this Christians believed the world would end this Doomsday to 800. astrologer as a sign of the Millennium. year as 1656 is the number of years between [12] 848 - Thiota - Declared that the [28] 1525 - Thomas Müntzer - This year Creation and the Great Flood in the bible. world would end this year. would mark the beginning of the Millennium, [42] 1657 - Fifth Monarchists - This [13] 992-995 - Various Christians - according to this Anabaptist. group of radical Christians predicted the final Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the [29] 1528 - Johannes Stöffler - Revised apocalyptic battle and the destruction of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to be date from Stöffler after his 1524 prediction Antichrist were to take place between 1655 and the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, failed to come true. 1657. and thus the end-times, within 3 years. [30] 1528, May 27 - Hans Hut - [43] 1658 - Christopher Columbus - [14] 1000, Jan 1 - Pope Sylvester II - Predicted the end would occur on this day. Columbus claimed that the world was created in Various Christians in Europe had predicted the [31] 1533 - Melchior Hoffman - This 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. end of the world on this date, including Pope Anabaptist prophet predicted Christ's Second Assuming no year zero, that means the end Sylvester II. Coming to take place this year in Strasbourg. He would come in 1658. [15] 1033 - Various Christians - Some claimed that 144,000 people would be saved, [44] 1660 - Joseph Mede - Mede believed this to be the 1000th anniversary of the while the rest of the world would be consumed claimed that the Antichrist appeared in 456, and death and resurrection of Jesus, and his second by fire. the end would come in 1660. coming was anticipated. [32] 1533, Oct 19 - Michael Stifel - This (Continued on Page 6)