This page attempts to list time-specific events that were prophesied by prophets or leaders within various churches and sects who identify themselves as Christian, but whose prophecies failed to happen.

These are all non-Biblical, failed prophecies. Biblical prophecy is not included, and is dealt with in separate articles.

The "prophets" listed here include anyone who has prophesied about the future within visible Christian churches (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox) — even where they were considered heretical, at the time or later. New Religious Movements that have their original basis in the Christian church are also included here. It should also be noted that the vast majority of Christians have never believed in these extra-Biblical prophecies.

3rd Century

• Christ returns and sets up the New Jerusalem in the
  
  
  
  small town of Pepuza in Phrygia. (Montanus)

15th Century

• 1420
  • Christ returns and every city on earth is destroyed by fire. (Taborites)

16th Century

• 1533
  • July 15: Henry VIII dies after disobeying God's will and marrying Anne Boleyn. (Elizabeth Barton)
  • Return of Christ in Strasbourg (Melchior Hoffman)

• 1534
  • April 15: Johann Matthys, a new Gideon, sallies forth from the town of Münster with 30 men and defeats the evil forces of Francis of Waldeck, the town's expelled Bishop.

19th Century

• 1843
  • William Miller used the Book of Daniel to predict the Second Coming, and said it would be between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844.
• 1844
  • October 22: William Miller revised the Return of Christ to this date, which is known as the Great Disappointment. (Members of the Bahá'í Faith believe that Christ did return on May 23 1844 as the Báb (the Gate), the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh (Glory of God)
• 1873 or 1874
  • May 21: Charles Taze Russell, founder of what became many religions, including Jehovah's Witnesses, reinterpreted Miller's teachings.
• 1878
  • April: Nelson H. Barbour predicted believers would go to Heaven during April 1878.

20th Century

• 1914
  • Armageddon (Charles Taze Russell - Jehovah's Witnesses) (World War One, which broke out in this year, was referred to colloquially as "Armageddon", at least until World War Two.)
• 1918
  • God destroys churches and millions of its members (Joseph Franklin Rutherford - Jehovah's Witnesses)

• 1920
  • The world
    
    
    
    descends into total chaos (Joseph Franklin Rutherford - Jehovah's Witnesses)

• 1925
  • Millennium begins, with Biblical figures such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David coming back to life. (Joseph Franklin Rutherford - Jehovah's Witnesses)

• 1974
  • January 11-January 21: America destroyed by comet Kohoutek (David Berg)

• 1977
  • World Council of Churches takes over all Christian denominations. (William M. Branham)
  • Israel becomes increasingly more wealthy as its cheap geothermal energy source is able to extract potash from the Dead Sea. With energy prices skyrocketing because of oil shortages and a world-wide famine that increases the demand for fertilizer, the extraction of potash and other minerals from the Dead Sea makes Israel into one of the wealthiest nations on earth. (Hal Lindsey)
  • All major Christian denominations reject the truth of the Bible. (Hal Lindsey)

• 1981
  • Acting on the commands of a 900-foot-tall Jesus, Oral Roberts builds the City of Faith Medical Center.
  • Cure for Cancer discovered 'in the next few decades'. (Oral Roberts)

• 1989
  • A short man appears within a "few" years who will rule the world as the Antichrist. (Benny Hinn)
  • The East Coast of America is badly damaged by earthquakes in the next ten years. (Benny Hinn)
  • Fidel Castro dies "within ten years". (Benny Hinn)
  • America's first female President will be appointed "in the next few years". Unfortunately, she ends up destroying the nation. (Benny Hinn)
  • Armies of perverts invade churches world-wide and engage in sexual activity. (Rick Joyner)
• 1992
  • October 28: Return of Christ / Rapture (Lee Jan Rim)

• 1993
  • President Bill Clinton goes through a "Damascus Road" experience and is given by God to give blessing to America and to rescue them from the New World Order. (Paul Cain)

• 1994
  • Massive world-wide revival. (Paul Cain)
  • Second Coming of Christ occurs September 6 (Harold Camping, in the book 1994?)

• 1995
  • God destroys America's Homosexual community. (Benny Hinn)

• 1996
  • Canadian Civil War (William Kann)

• 1997
  • Hank Hanegraaff, exposer of false and misleading prophecies, dies. His organisation, the Christian Research Institute, closes. (John Kilpatrick)

• 2000
  • Battle of Armageddon (Hal Lindsey)
  • January 3: Doomsday (Gary North)
  • October: Jesus returns and defeats HRH The Prince of Wales, who is the Antichrist (Jim Searcy)

21st Century

• 2002
  • Detroit and San Francisco become terrorist targets.(Pat Robertson)

• 2003
  • August 11: Liberian President Charles Taylor, a godly Baptist with links with al-Qaeda, resigns and the nation is plunged into chaos because of the nation's lack of Christian leadership. (Pat Robertson)

• 2004
  • November 2: George W. Bush narrowly wins the US Presidential election. Pat Robertson had predicted in January 2004 that Bush would win in a "blowout".

See also

• Six Ages of the World
• Middle Ages
• Summary of Christian eschatological differences