Apocalypse

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Camille Flammarion. Apocalypse

Selected Dates of Apocalyptic Predictions

Beliefs about the end of the world through the ages

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c. 34 CE The first Christian church awaits the return of Jesus Christ, basing their expectation on Jesus’ own words: “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

31 December 999 At the end of the first millennium a wave of panic and apocalyptic gloom swept through the Christian West. Pope Sylvester II supposedly celebrated a fearful mass on the eve of the New Year, fully expecting the world to end.

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1969 Infamous hippy-sectarian Charles Manson was obsessed by the idea that the world was determined to end in a full-scale race war. Not only did he prophesise these events, but he actively attempted to make them come to pass by commanding his disciples to commit high-profile murders and blame African Americans for the crimes. Manson is currently serving a life-sentence in a Californian jail.

Hieronymus Bosch

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