Total tickets
21
from 793 to 2025
Open
0
none outstanding
Closed
21
resolution applied
Days of downtime
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the world kept running
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TERM-001CLOSED
Reporter
Beatus of Liébana, Spanish monk
Predicted end
6 April 793
Mechanism: the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the world, prophesied in front of a large crowd. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-002CLOSED
Reporter
Thiota, Christian prophet
Predicted end
847
Mechanism: the world would end that year. The reporter later confessed the prediction was fraudulent and was publicly flogged. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-003CLOSED
Reporter
Pope Sylvester II and various clerics
Predicted end
1 January 1000
Mechanism: the Millennium. Riots are said to have occurred in Europe and pilgrims headed east to Jerusalem; historians dispute that any of it happened. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-004CLOSED
Reporter
Sandro Botticelli
Predicted end
1504 (Millennium within three and a half years of 1500)
Mechanism: the Tribulation, then the Millennium. The painter wrote into his Mystical Nativity that the Devil was loose and would soon be chained. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-005CLOSED
Reporter
London astrologers
Predicted end
1 February 1524
Mechanism: a flood starting in London would end the world. Twenty thousand Londoners left their homes for higher ground in anticipation. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-006CLOSED
Reporter
Michael Stifel, mathematician
Predicted end
19 October 1533, 8:00 am
Mechanism: Judgement Day, calculated by arithmetic to begin at 8:00 am. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-007CLOSED
Reporter
Jan Matthys, Anabaptist leader
Predicted end
5 April 1534
Mechanism: the apocalypse, during the Münster rebellion. When the day came the reporter led a failed attack against Franz von Waldeck and was decapitated. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-008CLOSED
Reporter
Martin Luther
Predicted end
no later than 1600
Mechanism: the end of the world, per a German priest and professor of theology. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-009CLOSED
Reporter
Jacob Bernoulli, mathematician
Predicted end
5 April 1719
Mechanism: a comet would destroy the Earth on this day. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-010CLOSED
Reporter
William Whiston, theologian
Predicted end
16 October 1736
Mechanism: a comet colliding with the Earth on this day. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-011CLOSED
Reporter
Mary Bateman, Leeds
Predicted end
1806
Mechanism: a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written, read as a warning of the end. The eggs turned out to have been etched with corrosive ink and reinserted into the hen by its owner. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-012CLOSED
Reporter
Joanna Southcott, self-described prophet
Predicted end
19 October 1814
Mechanism: the birth of the Christ child to the 64-year-old reporter on this day. She died that year without delivering; an autopsy proved she had not been pregnant. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-013CLOSED
Reporter
William Miller, Baptist preacher, and the Millerites
Predicted end
21 March 1844, revised to 22 October 1844
Mechanism: the return of Christ. When the first date passed, the prediction was revised to October on the claim of a miscalculation in Scripture. The failure became known as the Great Disappointment. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-014CLOSED
Reporter
Charles Taze Russell, Christian minister
Predicted end
October 1914
Mechanism: "the battle of the great day of God Almighty", the close of which Russell said was "definitely marked in Scripture as October 1914" and already in progress. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-015CLOSED
Reporter
Dorothy Martin, leader of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays
Predicted end
21 December 1954
Mechanism: the world destroyed by terrible flooding on this date. The group's aftermath became the basis of the 1956 book When Prophecy Fails. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-016CLOSED
Reporter
Charles Manson
Predicted end
1969
Mechanism: Helter Skelter, an apocalyptic race war, in 1969. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-017CLOSED
Reporter
Marshall Applewhite, leader of Heaven's Gate
Predicted end
26 March 1997
Mechanism: a spacecraft trailing Comet Hale-Bopp; suicide was argued as "the only way to evacuate this Earth" so the reporters' souls could board it. Applewhite and 38 followers died. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-018CLOSED
Reporter
Harold Camping, Christian broadcaster
Predicted end
21 May 2011, revised to 21 October 2011
Mechanism: the Rapture and devastating earthquakes, with God taking roughly 3% of the world's population, and the end of the world five months later. When the first date passed, the Rapture was reclassified as a "Spiritual Judgment" and the physical end moved to October. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-019CLOSED
Reporter
Various (the 2012 phenomenon)
Predicted end
21 December 2012
Mechanism: the end of the 13th b'ak'tun of the Maya Long Count, by asteroid, Nibiru, alien invasion, or supernova. Mayanist scholars said no extant classic Maya account forecast doom; NASA said none of the events were possible. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-020CLOSED
Reporter
David Meade, conspiracy theorist
Predicted end
23 September 2017, revised to 23 April 2018
Mechanism: Nibiru would become visible and "soon" destroy the Earth; when it did not, the Rapture and the end of the world were moved to April 2018. source
Resolution: world did not end.
TERM-021CLOSED
Reporter
Joshua Mhlakela and various TikTok users
Predicted end
23–24 September 2025, revised
Mechanism: the Biblical Rapture, with Jesus ascending true believers before a global tribulation, promoted under the hashtag #RaptureTok. Survival-kit videos for those "left behind" amassed millions of views. The reporter revised the date after the first failure. source
Resolution: world did not end.
About this tracker
Every ticket names a real person or group, a real date they published, and the mechanism they gave for the end. Each one is drawn from Wikipedia's list of dated predictions of apocalyptic events, which carries the original citations; the source links go to that list.
The tracker's conventions are simple. A ticket is opened the moment a date is published. It is closed when the date passes and the mechanism does not arrive. The resolution field is filled in from a template, because after enough tickets the wording settles.
Source: Wikipedia, "List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events. No prediction was invented for this page; the dates and claimants are the ones the reporters published. Nothing here is sent or stored. The queue will grow.