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Failed predictions
- 992
- End of the world according to Bernard of Thüringen
- 1524
- February 20 - Worldwide deluge according to German astrologer Johann Stoffler (later moved to 1588)
- 1533
- The Millennium would occur according to Anabaptists
- > Obviously not a mathematician...
- Return of Christ in Strasbourg according to Melchior Hoffman
- 1759
- God's anger against the wicked would be demonstrated in 1759 according to Christopher Love
- 1761
- 1844
- October 22: Believed to be the return of Jesus Christ by the Millerites
- 1882 & 1911
- End of the world according to Scottish astrologer Charles Piazzi Smyth based on the calculations of the great pyramid of Giza
- 1914
- End of the world according to Charles Taze Russell
- 1919
- Conjunction of 6 planets would make the sun explode, according to meteorologist Albert Porta
- 1925
- End of the World according to Jehovah's Witnesses
- > If this is so, Why are they still around!?
- 1928
- May 29 - End of the world according to The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message by David Davidson and Herbert Aldersmith.
- 1936
- September 6 - End of the world according to George F. Riffel (he later claimed that it had actually predicted the abdication of Edward VIII)
- > I can see how that could be seen as the same....
- 1953
- August 29 - End of the world according to the 1940 edition of The Great Pyramid: Its Divine Message
- 1952
- "It's all going to be over" evangelist Billy Graham
- 1967
- December 25 - Nuclear holocaust, according to Anders Jensen of Orthon Disciples
- 1975
- End of the World according to Jehovah's Witnesses
- > Well if at first you don't succeed...
- 1982
- End of the world according to Pat Robertson.
- Jupiter effect, astronomical alignment of planets on the one side of the sun would cause lethal solar flares - according to UK authors John Gribbin and Stephen Plageman
- 1988
- Rapture according to The Late, Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey
- 1991
- End of the world (attributed to Mother Shipton)
- 1992
- October 28: Return of Christ / Rapture (Lee Jan Rim)
- 1993
- November 14 or November 24 - End of the world according to Ukrainian White Brotherhood
- 1998
- May 31: Rapture according to evangelist Marilyn Agee
- 2000
- End of the world according to Jeanne de Roger
- Eradication of computerised society due to the Millenium Bug
- May 5 - Alignments of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with Earth and the Moon cause worldwide disaster, according to Richard Noone
- 2003
- May 15: end of the world according to Pana Wave Laboratory (later changed to May 22)
- 2006
- June 6: Date predicted by some for being Number of the Beast day (6/06/06)
If anyone knows any more pass them on!
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