Past dates for failed doomsday prophecies

Here are some examples, with the predicted date of the end of all things. Please, past dates only, so we can share this with people who get easily scared of future dates.

See also List of past dates predicted for apocalyptic events

1st century CE

 * Early Christianity: Second Coming. Any day now! In fact, within the lifetimes of Jesus's eyewitnesses.
 * Revelation: Armageddon. Indeed, the very word "Apocalypse" is the Greek word for revelation.

7th century

 * Muslims believed in the Qiyamah (Last Judgement) during which time Jesus will come to earth, end all wars, and kill ad-Dajjal &mdash; the Muslim anti-Christ. Then every person who ever lived will be bodily resurrected, before being judged by God. The faithful go to heaven, and the rest to hell. Apparently there's also room for some "People of the Book," i.e. Jews and Christians, though hopefully there won't be any wars between the lot in heaven. Presumably God will actually do something to stop fighting within his heavenly realm, unlike on Earth, so that celestial wars would seem unlikely.

16th century

 * Circa 1504: Painter Sandro Botticelli believed he was living during the End Times/, according to an inscription on his painting The Mystical Nativity.
 * 1533: Michael Stifel, Judgement Day. A common saying in German for PIDOOMA is to "calculate" or "talk a Stifel."

18th century

 * 1719: Jacob Bernoulli: a comet seen in 1680 would return and collide with the Earth. Said comet hasn't been seen since.

19th century

 * The "Great Disappointment": William Miller predicts the end would come in 1843... then 1844... oh. His many thousands of followers reacted in different ways to his utter failure: some wised up and gave up on his predictions, while others became Seventh Day Adventists. They're still waiting. Still others became the Jehovah's Witlesses, who badly retconned Miller's prediction so they could claim it actually did happen, just not the way he predicted.
 * 1865: predicted by Edward Bishop Elliott, a Victorian Biblical scholar; he later revised this to 1941.
 * 1881: according to an 1862 edition of the prophecies of Mother Shipton, who allegedly wrote "The world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty one." (Seems she was no better at poetry than she was at prediction.)
 * Native Americans in Spring 1891: All the whites are gonna die really soon!

20th century

 * 1910: Halley's Comet's tail crosses the Earth and people think that the world will be gassed to death by cyanogen gas.
 * 1914: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * 1915: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * 1918: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * 1920: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * 1923: Wilbur Glenn Voliva: Flat Earth to end
 * 1925: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * 1927: Wilbur Glenn Voliva
 * 1930: Wilbur Glenn Voliva
 * 1934: Wilbur Glenn Voliva
 * 1935: Wilbur Glenn Voliva
 * 1941: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * 1941: Victorian scholar Edward Bishop Elliott, based on his interpretation of the Book of Revelation, came up with this date after his earlier predictions in the 1860s proved untrue.
 * 1975: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * Mid-1970s: David Wilkerson: Worldwide economic depression.
 * 1977: William Branham: Destruction of the U.S., termination of all governments into a world government, Second Coming.
 * 1977: Pyramidologist Adam Rutherford: Beginning of the Millennium.
 * 1978: Jim Jones took his cult with him.
 * 1979-1980: John Todd: Installation of a world government ruled by the Illuminati, with Jimmy Carter as the anti-Christ. Because...peanuts?
 * 1980: Pat Robertson: "A year of sorrow and bloodshed that will have no end soon, for the world is being torn apart, and my kingdom shall rise from the ruins of it."
 * 1981: Hal Lindsey: Pre-tribulational rapture.
 * 1982: Pat Robertson: Great Tribulation.
 * 1982: R.E. McMaster: World War III and/or economic depression, based on cyclical theory.
 * 1985: Pat Robertson: Worldwide economic collapse.
 * 1988: Hal Lindsey: Second Coming.
 * September 11-13, 1988: Edgar Whisenant: Second Coming.
 * 1988: Colin Deal: Second Coming.
 * 1989: Edgar Whisenant: Second Second Coming.
 * 1990: Elizabeth Clare Prophet: Global thermonuclear war.
 * 1991: Louis Farrakhan: The looming Gulf War would be the "War of Armageddon which is the final war."
 * 1992 (September 28): Rollen Stewart: Second Coming.
 * 1992: Mission for the Coming Days: Second Coming.
 * 1992: First end of the world prediction from collision with the Pleiades star cluster (a.k.a., "photon belt")
 * 1994: Harold Camping: Second Coming.
 * 1994: Some Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * 1997: Heaven's Gate: Earth changes and a UFO abduction coinciding with the Hale-Bopp comet. Mass suicide in the hopes of hitching a ride on said UFOs.
 * 1997: Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon.
 * 1998: The Church of the SubGenius: the Rupture. Every year on July 5th, they meet and party in reverence, certain that it will happen this year. (Recent writings have inverted the year to "8661.")
 * 1999: according to some interpretations of Nostradamus
 * 1999:A now little-known collision with Planet X
 * 1999-2000: David Wilkerson: Worldwide economic depression.
 * May 5, 2000: Cataclysmic crust displacement predicted by Richard W. Noone
 * 2000: Y2K: Collapse of civilisation. Christian preachers in Papua New Guinea predicted the end. Hal Lindsey failed on this one again.

21st century

 * ≤2001: Cataclysmic crust displacement predicted by William Hutton.
 * 2002 (December 8th): Survivalist Bruce Beach (of Ark Two fame) predicted it on a Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode that was not aired until 2003.
 * 2003: Mary 2003 was supposed to have Earth cataclysmically smash into Nibiru/Planet X, according to ZetaTalk.
 * 2005-2026: William Strauss and Neil Howe &mdash; a crisis period in the U.S. comparable in effect to the American Revolution, Civil War, and Great Depression/WWII.
 * 2007: Hal Lindsey &mdash; the Second Second Coming.
 * 2007: Pat Robertson &mdash; the Great Tribulation.
 * 2008 (whenever she dies): Sarah Palin believes she is of the "Final Generation" and will see the End Times during her lifetime.{
 * 2009: David Wilkerson &mdash; Earth-shattering calamity engulfing the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America experiencing riots and blazing fires.
 * 2011: Harold Camping tries again &mdash; Third Second coming/rapture. May 21st, to be precise. He put up billboards! Later postponed to October 21st, but again nothing came of it.
 * 2011: Ronald Weinland: Second Coming on the 29th of September. Strike one!
 * 2012: 2012 apocalypse)
 * 2012: Ronald Weinland &mdash; Second Coming on the 27th of May. Strike two!
 * 2012 (December 21st): Eastern Lightning cult predicted the end of the world.
 * 2013: Supposedly Isaac Newton predicted it.
 * 2013: Ronald Weinland &mdash; Second Coming on the 9th of May. Strike three, you're out! (see 2019 for strike 4)
 * 2014 (February 22nd): Ragnarok &mdash; the end of the present world according to Norse mythology.
 * 2014 (March 21st): Asteroid?
 * 2014: World War III, resurrected Nostradamus prophecy of a fire in the North for the reference of the end of the age of the fifth sun, believed to be a specific Northern region of a country, current speculation is North Korea, as relative to the resolution of a Pope prediction. Oh, and the Rapture. And a giant asteroid hitting the Caribbean.
 * between April 2014 and October 2015: A tetrad of lunar eclipses (or blood moons) will signal the start of the end times, according to megachurch pastor John Hagee.
 * 2015: Solar flare.
 * 2015 (September 23rd): (some references give a margin of September 18th to September 25th) Asteroid.
 * 2015 (October 7th): eBible Fellowship, an organization vaguely related to the late-Harold Camping, is confident they've got the date right this time.
 * 2016: Tom Wattkins: He had a vision of the Great tribulation claiming to have met the beast of revelation, etc. Turns out the same day is a solar eclipse., though of course he'll mention that.
 * 2016 (April 6th): Warren Jeffs, in no way due to a contemporaneous arrangement.
 * 2016 (May 16th): Pastor Richardo Salazar was allegedly told by God that an asteroid fully made of ice, with a 9km diameter, traveling at 30,000km per hour would strike earth killing 1,200 million people. As you probably can tell, that definitely happened and those totally dead 1,200 million people will be forever missed.
 * 2016 (June 3-4): Modern scholars got the Mayan date wrong. It was never 2012, rather it was June 2016 and there are plenty of numbers involved.
 * 2016 (June 14th-August 19th): According to this super reliable, super honest, super definitely-NOT-bullshiting "NASA scientist", there was meant to be a magnetic reversal between June and August which would cause the Van Allen belt to fall killing 80% of life on Earth. He got this information from aliens via HAARP. Yup, aliens told our good 'ol uncle Dr. Sal that the sky is falling.
 * 2016 (October 31st): Walid Shoebat alleges that the world is "100% certain" to end on this exact arbitrary nutjob date. As the basis for this claim, he refers to his own science of "Futurology 101".
 * 2016 (Fall): Bible student and computer scientist Nora Roth on MarkBeast.com claims as much through a lot of numerology surrounding seventy "sevens".
 * 2016 (December): Bible student and computer scientist Nora Roth subsequently revised her claim to December.
 * September 23, 2017: Nibiru/Planet X will again collide with Earth, the second prediction by David Meade. . Plus a rare constellation alignment will start the Rapture
 * October 2017: Initial forecast made by David Meade
 * October 15, 2017: The third time's a charm by David Meade.
 * November 19, 2017: The fourth time is not so charming, David Meade.
 * 2017: Various Christians say we'll be chipped, and the Great Tribulation will begin.
 * 2017 to 2113: Asteroids.
 * 2018: 23th of April, David Meade strikes back... and fails again
 * 2018: The Bible guarantees May 20, 2018 Pentecost, or your money back.
 * 2018: 24th of June, obscure crank Mathieu Jean-Marc Joseph Rodrigue ensures that doom is upon us, based on some middle school math.
 * 2018: Hal Lindsey &mdash; the Third Second Coming.

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Other recent dates debunked for Doomsday Debunked

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