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The Doomsday List

Getting pre-2012 jitters? Me too! But consider these other dates given for the End of the World...

∆ Around 30 AD:
Taking the New Testament literally, this is the time-frame Jesus gave for The Second Coming. Matthew 24:34, "...This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." The date is based on the life-expectancy in that era, thirty years.

∆ 500 AD:
Hippolytus of Rome, a 3rd-century theologian, predicted world will end on this date, and uses evidence from the Bible (including the dimensions of the Ark of the Covenant) to prove his point. The belief that the world would end in 500 AD was popular at that time, and Hippolytus's opinion was shared by fellow theologians Sextus Julius Africanus and Irenus.

∆ 1000 AD:
The first big "End Times" craze. Mass panic. Christians giving away their possessions. Christians fighting with Pagans, trying to convert as many as they could before Christ came back. You can only imagine what would have happened if they had the Internet back then, with those little "1000 AD: Apocalypse" YouTube videos.

∆ 1033 AD:
The Christians who predicted the end of the world in 1000 AD realized that they forgot to add in Jesus's age. Oops.


∆ 1186 AD:
Around 1184 certain prophecies began to talk of an impending "New World Order," instructing the citizens to run to the caves and hide because of all the famine, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that were to follow. Stop me if you heard this one before.


∆ 1284:
Pope Innocent III came up with this date by adding 666 years since the founding of Islam.

∆ 1346 AD and afterwards:
Black plague sweeps across Europe, killing 1/3 of population, scaring the hell out of everyone else. At least this one had something to really back it up.

∆ 1496 AD:
1500 years after the birth of Jesus, this was another popular End Times date for the eschatological set.

∆ 1669 AD:
Fearing the return of the Antichrist on this date, 20,000 Old Believers in Russia burned themselves to death between 1669-1690. That'll show the Antichrist.


∆ 1792 AD:
A date believed to be the end of the world by some Shakers. By now, every group seemed to have their fave date for the Apocalypse.


∆ March 21, 1843 AD:
William Miller, founder of the appropriately-named "Millerite" movement, predicted the Second Coming of Jesus on this date. This was apparently a very popular belief, and when 1843 passed and Jesus didn't come back, Miller...

∆ October 22, 1844 AD:
...chose one year later to be his new official End of the World date. Still high off the last build-up to the end, Christians sold their property, quit their jobs and waited. This date is also known as "The Great Disappointment."

∆ 1874 AD:
One of many dates chosen for the end of the world by the Jehovah's Witnesses (or people related to them). After the failed 1975 date, there was a good deal of fall-outwithin the church.

∆ 1891 AD:
Mother Shipton, a 16th century mystic, allegedly wrote the following rhyme: "..The world to an end shall come; in eighteen hundred and eighty-one." The fact that I write "allegedly" tells you a lot.


∆ December 17, 1919 AD:
Meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that a cosmic alignment of 6 planets would make the sun explode. He was also wrong about rain over the weekend.

∆ 1973 AD:
"Children of God" leader David Berg predicted the comet Kohoutek would destroy the United States; which, of course, means the end of the entire world, because the USA is so awesome.
∆ The 1980s AD:
As the years got closer to 2000, the End Time Race really heated up – with the Eighties being a popular decade to start looking busy because Jesus was coming back. Celebrity psychic Jeanne Dixon predicted the Earth would be hit by a comet in the mid-80s, for example. She also predicted the first woman president for the same time period. Coincidence?

∆ May 25, 1981 AD:
50 members of the "Assembly of Yahweh" gathered in Coney Island, NY to await the end of the world between the hours of 3 PM and sundown. Yes, there were bongo drums.

∆ 1988 AD:
Edgar C. Whisenant, in his book "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988," gave a three day period in which believers would be "caught up with the Lord." When 1988 came and went, Whisenant followed the methodology of many would-be prophets before and since, adding one more year to the predicted date.


∆ September 6, 1994 AD:
Radio evangelist Harold Camping wrote in a book called "1994?" his own entry in the Apocalypse Sweepstakes: "if this study is accurate, and I believe with all my heart that it is, there will be no extensions of time. There will be no time for second guessing. When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can be saved, the end has come." He currently has a new end-date, October 21, 2011.

∆ 1999 AD:
Quoteth Nostradamus: The year 1999, seven months, From the sky will come a great King of Terror." Quoteth Prince: "The sky was all purple, there were people runnin' everywhere
Tryin' 2 run from the destruction, U know I didn't even care."

∆ 2000 AD:
The Y2K "millennium bug" had the whole world holding its breath on New Year's Eve, 1999. But you can choose from any number of predictions of *The End* for the year 2000. Religioustolerance.org has counted 42.

∆ 2004 AD:
We have an Apocalypse two-fer here! Watcher Ministries based their date on the return of Jesus on an analysis of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Donna Danna & Clay Cantrell based his date for the Rapture on the dimensions of Noah's Ark. One only one (or none) could be right!

That said, the world's totally going to end in 2012. Or 2013.

On the other hand you could also consider that throughout history, there have been those who have predicted the Coming of the End, the Consummation of All Things, the Return of Christ, Armageddon, Ragnarok, what-have-you. The majority of these seers and prognosticators were wise enough to leave the date unspecified, presumably to avoid embarrassment when the expected event failed to materialize. Others, such as Nostradamus and Bishop Ussher, put the date far into the future, long after their corporeal bodies had returned to dust.

There are those few brave souls, however, who are willing to stick their necks out, and give us a date in the near future, when they themselves will presumably still be around to either bask in the glow of glory, or suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, should the cosmic plan go awry. It is to these, the few, the brave and most importantly, the Web-enabled that this list is dedicated.

Date	Author	Event	Status
January 1, 2000	Too many to mention	The so-called "millenium bug" will result in a massive computer outage on 1/1/2000, caused by that fact that in the good old days of yore, many COBOL programmers decided to save a bit of memory by using only two digits to encode a year on date fields. Obviously, when "00" rolls around, these programs will think that it is January 1, 1900, and every algorithm that relies on a date sort routine will fail. It should be noted that very few of the doom-and-gloom purveyors are actually programmers. Those of us (like your ever humble list maintainer) who are involved with these systems on a daily basis tend to suspect that while there may be widespread outages and related problems, the worst that will happen is that a whole host of unlucky nerds will have to pull several all-nighters in front of their terminals. But we will get it fixed. Update (1/4/2000): I think it is fairly safe to say that this prediction has mercifully failed. Was it a case of over-hype, or timely solution? You decide. In the meantime, would anyone like 800 tins of Beanie-Weenies?	Failed
January 1, 2000	Gary North	The founder of Christian Reconstruction has taken the y2k bug to a whole new level of hysteria. Gary is convinced that global economic chaos will result from a worldwide collapse of financial computer systems. Of course, the more cynical among us would note that North is famous for making equally hysterical, but inevitably false predictions in the past. Update (1/4/2000): We still seem to be here and functioning. I filled up my car with gas, and paid with my credit card. Credit card processing seemed to be unaffected by Y2K. The complete collapse of civilization as we know it appears to have made little impact on the daily lives of the inhabitants of our planet. However, Gary seems to be holding out some hope that death and destruction will slowly creep upon us in the coming months. I think not.	Failed
April 5, 2000	Michael Rood	Almost missed this one. Michael updated his guess for Tishri 1, 6001 to April 5, 2000. This day "starts out with bloodshed, plagues, and all manner of pestilence". Sounds like a pretty good description of the Nasdaq roller-coaster to me. Sigh.	Failed
May 5, 2000	Richard Noone	The coming Ice disaster. Polar shifts. Global disaster. Or something... (May 5, 2000 is the date of the next Grand Conjunction, when the planets line up. Anyone remember 1982? The year of the last Grand Conjunction? When the world utterly failed to end?) Update (5/6/00): To the complete surprise of almost no-one (except, possibly, Mr. Noone), the end of the world has once again failed to arrive as scheduled. To his credit, Richard did strongly pepper his recent articles with weasel-words like "potential" and "possibly", but one suspects that life has once again thrown a would-be Jeremiah the proverbial curve ball. Now all Richard has to do is figure out where those voices in his head really came from... Update (6/18/00): An addendum on Noone's home page makes the insightful observation that "...most earth change activity has not affected high population areas...". It does point out that there have been earthquakes across the Pacific Rim, however. Golly gee. Earthquakes in the most active tectonic plates on the planet? Who woulda thunk it...	Failed
May 17, 2000	Rebecca Harrison	Also known as St John (hey, why not?), this starry-eyed soothsayer presents a wealth of future unfolding. May 17, 2000, Jesus is scheduled to debut his presence here on EArth. (That is not a typo, by the way. All you classical lit buffs should know what it means. Think "Gilgamesh".) Then, in June of 2003, the final battle takes place. Jesus said "no man knows the day or hour", but apparently the month and year were not covered. Also, there will be a forty day period of fasting from August 20 to September 30. You have been warned. (Finally, a use for all those Y2K canned meats!)	Failed
June 10, 2000	Ron Reese	Based on an extremely trustworthy source (a "revelation") and some convoluted logic, Ron thinks that a "flood-like" event will occur on June 10. Before we dismiss this as yet another of Ron's ravings (he has graced this list before), we should point out that Bonnie Gaunt was able to confirm this revelation through the use of oh-so-trustworthy numerology. So there.	Failed
June 11, 2000	Marilyn Agee	Third time's the charm. Update (6/18/2000) : Well, it seems that Marilyn's third date for the first rapture came and went with no obvious Heavenly fanfare. What of the future? Marilyn seems to think that the Church is currently in a 10-day waiting period, based on Rev 2:10. That means that June 20 should see the Rapture. This time for sure. Update (6/25/2000) : A new note on Marilyn's front page reads as follows: Messianic Rabbi Michael Rood [www.6001.com] announced today on the Prophecy Club that the corrected Solar Calendar proves that Shavuot begins this year on July 9th. This because the barley was 'Abib', green/ripe, on June 5th. This makes Oct. 28th Tishri 1, 6001. If his calculations are correct then the Pentecost Rapture may still occur this year. So there. Update (7/2/2000) : More stupid calendar tricks. Poor old Noah has been pressed into service yet again as a harbinger of the End. In a long and very confusing piece ofeisegesis, Marilyn somehow arrives at Av 19 (Aug 20) as a possible date for the Rapture. Says Marilyn: "I wonder if the indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ will fly the dove (Bride) to her rest, Heaven, on Av 19 (Sunday, Aug. 20, 2000)?" Uh...that would be a "no".	Failed
July 7, 2000	Robert Hallman	Combining UFO's (don't trust those greys - they are "Satan's Soldiers"!), Nostradamus and Biblical prophecy, Robert arrives at a tentative date (or two) for the Rapture. Robert has also exposed the Antichrist for all to see. Update (7/17/00): Most of Robert's pages are now gone, with the exception of a home page that sports a spiffy image of a morphing alien coupled with a rather pathetic poem. Still he admonishes us not to trust those greys. I intend to take him seriously. Alien cookout, anyone? Hmmm...tastes like chicken...	Failed
July 2000	Melody Mehta	Drawing data from such prophetic heavyweights as Gordon Michael Scallion, Nostradamus and Mother Shipton, Melody thinks that Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, will be knocked out of orbit by a passing comet. Guess where it's going to land up? Yup - it's metal helmet time, as several billion tons of rock come crashing down on us unsuspecting homo sapiens. And, with such remarkably accurate soothsayers on her side, how can Melody possibly fail to be wrong?	Failed
August 20, 2000	Ephraim	Begin preparations for the Battle of Armageddon. Ephraim reinterprets the book of Daniel for the umpteenth time, and arrives at a timeline for the Last Days. Unfortunately, this timeline calls for the Rapture to occur in March of 2000. Oops. Not to worry, our resourceful exegete points out that several events in this time period confirm his predictions. O ye of little faith... Update (8/27/00): Well, the Battle of Armageddon remains as elusive as ever. Have no fear, however, as Ephraim remains convinced that September 30 will mark the beginning of the Great Tribulation, and October 22 the Rapture. (Cool! On my birthday, too...)	Failed
September 2, 2000	Jerry Grenough	September 2 sees the end of the Jewish year 5760. Jerry also seems to think that this will be the absolute, final year of this present age. This conclusion is based on a number of impressive factors, but what sold it for me was the wonderful Bible Codes matrix that Jerry found. Oooh...	Failed
September 6, 2000	Daniel Adam Millar	The peace accord between Israel and Palestine on September 13, 1993 marked the beginning of the seven-year tribulation. On September 6, 2000, the Antichrist will proclaim himself God, and begin the battle of Armageddon.	Failed
September 16-19, 2000	Phil Stone	The Coastlands disaster. Phil sees all of Biblical history as a blueprint for the last days. The Gulf War, for example, was simply a replay of the story of Moses, substituting each year of the story for one day in modern times. Now that that's all clear, Phil sees the story of the Exodus as predicting a massive increase in the sea-level, resulting in catastrophic loss of life in the Summer of 2000. Surf's up, dudes!	Failed
September 29, 2000	Love the Jew	The End of the World will begin on Rosh Hashanah some year, most likely 2000.	Failed
September 29, 2000	Michael Rood	He's back. Michael believes that the accepted Hebrew calendar is all meshuga, and has kindly taken it upon himself to produce a corrected version. His version states that the seventh millenium actually began either on April 6, 2000 or May 5, 2000. (It depends on when his barley actually ripened. I kid you not.) This means that he expects the invasion of God and Magog either at the end of September, 2000 or October 28, 2000.	Failed
September 30, 2000	Jim Bramlett	Citing several erudite end-times scholars, one of whom is our own Marilyn Agee, Jim arrives at a window of 2004 - 2007 for the Second Coming. Citing a few more scholars and remarkable parallels, Jim tentatively points to Fall 2000 as the date of the Rapture. One should also note that Jim has a page pointing to June 1, 2000 as a possible date for the Rapture, though he seems to be unsure about how seriously it should be taken, considering the source.	Failed
October 1, 2000	Byron Weeks	The National ID Card system will be implemented on October 1st. President Clinton will declare martial law sometime in September or October, and the World Government will start rounding up the separatists and patriots. America will then be plunged into a nuclear war and desolated. Looks like we won't have to worry about whom to vote for in November.	Failed
October 2000	Jim Searcy	The return of Christ and the beginning of the Millenium. As a bonus, Jim also fingers the antichrist for us. I won't spoil the surprise, except to say that it should have been obvious all along...	Failed
November 12, 2000	James van der Worp	Okay, you're going to have to pay attention for this one. James was suspicious of NASA's silence concerning comet 76P. Following a chain of what we will generously call reasoning, James visits Mother Shipton, Gordon-Michael Scallion and that old stalwart Nostradamaus, and decided that there is an outside chance that 76P could knock Phobos out of Mars orbit, and directly into the path of the Earth. He projects an impact date of November 12, 2000, although he seems to think that a more likely period would be sometime in October. Whenever it hits, I, for one, intend to hold my umbrella up high.	Failed
November 17, 2000	David Zavitz	Another eisegesis fan (look it up!), David sees the Oslo Accord of September 13, 1993 between President Arafat and the late President Rabin as the start of the seven-year tribulation countdown. Somehow, this means that November 17 of 2000 will see "Faith's big reward" (?), followed in short order by the resurrection of Daniel himself.	Failed
2000	The House of Yahweh	The beginning of the Great Tribulation. The last seven years of human history began on September 13, 1993. Presumably, the final war will then begin sometime about September 13, 2000.	Failed
2000	William Zambrano	The impact of Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter signaled the start of the Seven-Year Tribulation.	Failed
2000	Ammar Ali Khan	The Muslims "Last Prophet" will appear to lead all the Faithful in a thirty-year battle against Satan's army.	Failed
January 20, 2001	Lyn Mize	Lyn's "understanding" of prophecy hints that the Rapture will occur before Saturday, and the Antichrist, none other than John F. Kennedy, will be revealed. This despite the somewhat awkward impediment of being very dead.	Failed
April 16, 2001	Bill Singleton	In a post on the Five Doves site, Bill presents what we can only assume was intended to be evidence for his position that the Rapture will occur on Easter Weekend, 2001. Bill has promised further posts, so stay tuned on this one.	Failed
April 24, 2001	Lord's Witnesses	Do you find yourself wondering whether the Bible Code is true or not? Well, me neither. But just in case, wonder no more. These nice folks have kindly figured out theTrue Bible Code for us. And is sure has some interesting things to say. Apparently, the UN will take over the world sometime between March 26th and April 24th of 2001. No-one will be able to buy or sell anything without UN authority after May 2001. And a worldwide famine will begin by September of this same year. Consider yourselves warned.	Failed
May 28, 2001	David Parker	David, also known (for some reason) as CAPS, has latched onto the story of the Baptism of Fire in Acts 2, and somehow transformed it into a potential date for the Rapture at Pentecost of 2001. The "evidence" is listed in a post, followed by this one.	Failed
May 28, 2001	Marilyn Agee	While Marilyn is desperately taking pot-shots at a date for the Rapture, she has in the meantime decided on an appointment for the start of the Tribulation. This date should see the beginning of the ministry of the two end-time witnesses, as well as the unveiling of the Antichrist. She notes that she expects the Rapture between now and the start of the Tribulation. Anyone want to take bets that this is going to come down to the wire? Update (5/30/01) : Marilyn seems to be in her quiet phase right now. Traditionally, there will be a few days of utter silence from the Agee camp while she desperately tries to figure out why she is still here. This will be followed by the equally traditional "Monkey Throwing Darts at the Calendar" phase, after which she will announce that, in fact, the Rapture was actually scheduled for next year all along. Go Marilyn! Update (6/15/01) : The Monkey/Dart phase is now in full swing. Having already seen June 9/10 go whizzing by, Marilyn is (cautiously) pointing the marker to June 21. It is on this day, apparently, that the Moon will be New, and the Eclipse will be in Gemini, or somesuch. One can only hope that Jupiter aligns with Mars, and Peace guides the planets as well...	Failed
November 11, 2001	Bob Ware	In a post that, for some reason, reminds me of a session of the Kevin Bacon Game gone hideously wrong, Bob repeatedly singles out the date of 11-22-01 as being somehow significant. The 22nd day of November is, of course, the anniversary of the assassination of JFK, an event that has provided more fodder for conspiracy theorists than a Freemason/Bilderberg convention at the Watergate Hotel.	Failed
2001	Unarius	The Pleiadeans land on Earth.	Failed
2001	Jack van Impe	2001 will see the start of the Great Tribulation. Political chaos, natural disasters, nuclear war and the worldwide rise of Islam will usher in mankind's final hour.	Failed
April 14, 2002	Mike Keller	Pure, vintage kookery here. It appears that one-half second before midnight on April 14, 2002, the Doomsgate will open, Jesus will appear for his saints. Nuclear war will begin 45 days after this point, earth shifts and global cataclysms just before it. At other points in this meandering, barely coherent diatribe, we are told that America will probably be under totalitarian rule before the end of Summer, 1999, and that Y2K (anyone remember that?) will signal the start of an inevitable slide into economic disaster. Seems that a few updates are called for.	Failed
17 October, 2004	Donna Danna Clay Cantrell	You have to love this one. Clay based his estimate of the date for the Rapture on the dimensions of Noah's Ark (converted to inches), taking special note of the location of the "escape window", and followed by some esoteric calculation involving the rotation of sun through the sky. Barnum was only half right. Update (2/22/01): Clay explains his "reasoning"...	Failed
2004	Watcher Ministries	The Tribulation began in 1997, and Christ will return seven years later in 2004. All this is based on an analysis of the Great Pyramid of Giza.	Failed
2005	Everett Vasek	Everett believes that the Rapture will occur on the Jewish feast day of Rosh Hashanah, sometime between 1998, and October 4, 2005. He bases this date on the timing of the Jewish feasts, the upcoming Israeli peace treaty, and the possible length of a biblical generation being 14,000 days long.	Failed
1999-2007	Thomas Chase	Thomas has a number of predictions for this period. He foresees the arrival of the Antichrist sometime in 1999-2000, the approach of Cassini in August 1999 as a "holographic or parallel event" signaling a possible nuclear crisis in Russia, and Armageddon, another nuclear war, in 2007.	Failed
1998-2012	Gordon-Michael Scallion	All sorts of catastrophic earth changes. Global warming. Melting polar ice caps. Earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.
Dec 21, 2012	Terence McKenna	Terence utilizes something called Novelty Theory to arrive at the conclusion that something, he's not quite sure what, of momentous import will occur on Dec 21, 2012. The list of "somethings" include a hyperspatial breakthrough, planetesimal impact, alien contact or even a quasar ignition at the galactic core. Sadly, Terence himself will not be around to see these dramatic events: he "relinquished his body" on April 3rd, 2000.
2012	Mayan Calendar	The end of the "long count" calendar apparently signals the end of our age.
2012	Kev Peacock	Kev has a scientific explanation for the end of life as we know it in 2012 - a magnetic field reversal in our Sun will likewise cause a field reversal in the Earth, accompanied by massive geothermal and tectonic catastrophes. Along the way, Kev manages to include Atlantis, an Interplanetary Ark, and both Maya and Egyptian mythology.