The wiki link in the OP is fascinating. Take a look at the end-time predictions from just the 1800s!
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19th century
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| Date(s) (CE) | Claimant(s) | Description | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1805 | Christopher Love | This Presbyterian minister predicted the destruction of the world by earthquake in 1805, followed by an age of everlasting peace when God would be known by all. | [76] |
| 1806 | Mary Bateman | In Leeds, England, in 1806 a hen began laying eggs on which the phrase "Christ is coming" was written. Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The owner, Mary Bateman, had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink so as to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen's oviduct. | [77] [78] |
| 19 Oct 1814 | Joanna Southcott | This 64-year-old self-described prophet claimed she was pregnant with the Christ child, and that he would be born on 19 October 1814. She died later that year having not delivered a child, and an autopsy proved she had not been pregnant. | [79] |
| November 12–13, 1833 | Various | During a large Leonids meteor shower, several people including Joseph Smith believed that it was a sign of Jesus' second coming. | [80] |
| 1836 | Johann Albrecht Bengel | In the 1730s this Lutheran clergyman proclaimed that Judgment Day would come in 1836, with the pope as the anti-Christ and the Freemasons representing the "false prophet" of Revelations. | [81] |
| 1836 | John Wesley | Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to 1058 to 1836, "when Christ should come". | [77] [82] |
| 28 Apr 1843, 31 Dec 1843 | Millerites | Although it was not officially endorsed by their leadership, many Millerites expected the Second Coming to occur on 28 April or at the end of 1843. | [83] |
| 1843 | Harriet Livermore | The first of two years this preacher predicted the world would end. | [84] |
| 21 Mar 1844 | William Miller | Miller, a Baptist preacher, predicted Christ would return on this day. | [85] |
| 22 Oct 1844 | Millerites | After Christ did not return on 21 March 1844, the Millerites then revised William Miller's prediction to 22 October the same year, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the Great Disappointment. | [85] [86] |
| 7 Aug 1847 | George Rapp | Rapp, the founder of the Harmony Society, preached that Jesus would return in his lifetime, even as he lay dying on 7 August 1847. | [87] |
| 1847 | Harriet Livermore | The second prediction of the end of the world from this preacher. | [84] |
| 1862 | John Cumming | This Scottish clergyman stated it was 6,000 years since creation in 1862, and that the world would end. | [88] |
| Joseph Morris | An English convert to Mormonism, Morris had revelations to gather his followers and wait for the Second Coming, through successive prophesied days. | [89] | |
| 1863 | John Wroe | The founder of the Christian Israelite Church calculated that the Millennium would begin this year. | [79] |
| 1873 | Jonas Wendell | In 1870, Wendell published his views in the booklet entitled The Present Truth, or Meat in Due Season concluding that the Second Advent was sure to occur in 1873. | [90] |
| 1874 | Charles Taze Russell | This Christian minister predicted the return of Jesus to occur in 1874, and after this date reinterpreted the prediction to say that Jesus had indeed returned in invisible form. | [91] [92] |
| 1881 | Mother Shipton (attrib.) | This 15th-century prophet was quoted as saying "The world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty one" in a book published in 1862. In 1873 it was revealed to be a forgery; however, this did not stop some people from expecting the end. | [93] |
| 1890 | Wovoka | The founder of the Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that the Millennium would occur in 1890. | [94] |
