| •In 634 BCE, Many Romans feared that the city would be destroyed in the 120th year of its founding. There was a myth that 12 eagles had revealed to Romulus a mystical number representing the lifetime of Rome, and some early Romans hypothesized that each eagle represented 10 years. |
| •In 66-70 CE, the Essene sect of Jewish ascetics saw the Jewish revolt against the Romans as the final end-time battle. By the authority of Simon, coins were minted declaring the redemption of Zion. |
| •On April 6, 93 CE, the Spanish monk, Beatus of Liébana, prophesied the second coming of Christ and the end of the world on that day to a crowd of people. |
| •Sextus Julius Africanus revised the date of Doomsday to 800. |
| •In 848 CE, Thiota declared that the world would end that year. |
| •Christian clerics predicted the end of the world on date the date of the Millennium—January 1, 1000, including Pope Sylvester II. Believers sat on their rooftops waiting for the Rapture. Riots occurred in Europe. Pilgrims headed east to Jerusalem. |
| •Following the failure of the January 1, 1000 prediction, some theorists proposed that the end would occur 1000 years after Jesus’ death—1033 CE, instead of his birth. People sat on their rooftops waiting for the Rapture.
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| •A group of astrologers in London predicted the world would end by a flood starting in London on February 1, 1524 based on calculations made the previous June. 20,000 Londoners left their homes and headed for higher ground in anticipation. Many sat on their rooftops waiting for the Rapture, as well. |
| •The same astrologers who predicted the deluge of February 1, 1524 recalculated the date to February 1, 1624 after their first prophecy failed. People sat on their rooftops waiting for the Rapture |
| •In his Book of Prophecies (1501), Columbus predicted that the world would end in 1656. Some followers sat on their rooftops waiting for the Rapture. |
| •When the world did not end in 1656, Columbus revised his calculations and claimed that the world was created in 5343 BCE, and would last 7000 years. Assuming no year zero, that meant that the end would come in 1658. Fewer followers sat on their rooftops waiting for the Rapture. |
| •Puritan minister, Cotton Mather, predicted the world would end in 1697. After the prediction failed, he revised the date of the End two more times. Each time, many believers sat on their rooftops and waited for the Rapture. |
| •Cotton Mather revised his prediction after his 1697 prediction failed to come true. A group of followers sat on their rooftops in 1716 and waited for the Rapture. |
| •Mather revised his prediction after neither his 1697 nor his 1716 predictions came to pass. Only a handful of true believers sat on their rooftops in 1736 and waited for the Rapture. |
| •After Christ did not return on March 21, 1844, the Millerites then revised William Miller‘s prediction to October 22, 1844, claiming to have miscalculated scripture. Each time, believing Millerites sat on their rooftops and waited for the Rapture. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in the Great Disappointment. |
| •The founder of the Ghost Dance movement, Wovoka, predicted in 1889 that the Millennium would occur in 1890. The Indian people did not have many rooftops to sit on waiting for the Rapture, but they did so in spirit. |
| •According to Margaret Rowan, a Seventh-day Adventist leader, the angel Gabriel appeared before her in a vision and told her that the world would end at midnight on this February 13, 1925. Believers sat on their rooftops and waited for the Rapture. |
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| •The 2nd Prophet of the Branch Davidians, Florence Houteff, predicted the apocalypse foretold in the Book of Revelation would proceed on April 22, 1959. Believers sat on their rooftops and waited for the Rapture. The failure of the prophecy led to the split of the sect. |
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| •Jim Jones, the founder of the Peoples Temple, stated he had visions that a nuclear holocaust was to take place in 1967. |
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| •In 1972, Herbert W. Armstrong made yet another prediction of the End of the World, his third. The first two were in 1936 and 1943. failed to come true. People sat on their rooftops and waited for the Rapture. Nevertheless the third prediction failed to come true |
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