Don't be disappointed, there will be more to plan for, here is a list of the previous end of the worlds, from the 21st century, and the ones to come.
21st century:
2000: Y2K: Collapse of civilization. Christian preachers in Papua New Guinea predicted the end.[35] Hal Lindsey failed on this one again.
2001: Cataclysmic crust displacement predicted by William Hutton.[36]
2002 (December 8): Survivalist Bruce Beach (of Ark Two fame) predicted it on a Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode that was not aired until 2003.[37]
2003: Mary 2003 was supposed to have Earth cataclysmically smash into Nibiru/Planet X, according to ZetaTalk.
2005-2026: William Strauss and Neil Howe — a crisis period in the U.S. comparable in effect to the American Revolution, Civil War, and Great Depression/WWII.[38]
2007: Hal Lindsey — the Second Second Coming.
2007: Pat Robertson — the Great Tribulation.
2008 (whenever she dies): Sarah Palin believes she is of the "Final Generation" and will see the End Times during her lifetime.[citation needed]
2008 (whenever it shuts down): The Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world with black holes, strangelets, or something similarly scary and science-y.[39] (You can keep up to date with whether this has happened yet here.[40])
2009: David Wilkerson — Earth-shattering calamity engulfing the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America experiencing riots and blazing fires.[41]
2011: Harold Camping tries again — Third Second coming/rapture. May 21st, to be precise.[42] He put up billboards![43] Later postponed to October 21st, but again nothing came of it. Camping might hold on to the money people sent him if he weren't dead now, though he evidently blew a bundle on billboard advertisements.[44] though followers were encouraged to drain their savings for Camping's campaign funds and many are deeply disappointed.[45]
2011: Ronald Weinland: Second Coming on the 29th of September. Strike one!
2012: But of course! Un-naturally failed apocalypse, NASA pushed away space rock expected to hit in series of attempts to bombard asteroids in previous years.[46] (They even did this to the moon!) The following trail fell to/passed Earth in early 2013.[47] ;)
2012: Ronald Weinland — Second Coming on the 27th of May. Strike two!
2012: Last known end of the world prediction from collision with the Pleiades star cluster
2012 (December 21st): Eastern Lightning cult predicted the end of the world.[48]
2013: 2012 was just a warm up, the real bad stuff starts 2013 or something and it seems Isaac Newton predicted it.[49]
2013: Ronald Weinland — Second Coming on the 9th of May. Strike three, you're out!
2014 (February 22nd): Ragnarok — the end of the present world according to Norse mythology.[50]
2014 (March 21st): Asteroid?[51]
2014: World War III, resurrected Nostradamus prophecy of a fire in the North for the reference of the end of the age of the fifth sun,[52] believed to be a specific Northern region of a country, current speculation is North Korea, as relative to the resolution of a Pope prediction.[53] Oh, and the Rapture.[54] And a giant asteroid hitting the Caribbean.[55]
between April 2014 and October 2015: A tetrad of lunar eclipses (or blood moons) will signal the start of the end times, according to megachurch pastor John Hagee. [56]
Unspecified time during the reign of Pope Francis, the pope succeeding Benedict XVI. Mediaeval Saint Malachy supposedly predicted Peter the Roman (Petrus Romanus) would be the last pope, Rome would be destroyed and a terrible judge would judge his people, The end.[57] Doomsayers have already started shoehorning the new pope into the prediction.[58]
2015: Solar flare.[59]
2015 (September 23rd): (some references give a margin of September 18th to September 25th) Asteroid.[60]
2015 (October 7th): eBible Fellowship, an organization vaguely related to the late-Harold Camping, is confident they've got the date right this time.[61]
2016: Tom Wattkins:[62] He had a vision of the Great tribulation claiming to have met the beast of revelation, etc. Turns out the same day is a solar eclipse.[63], though of course he'll mention that.[62]
2016 (April 6th): Warren Jeffs, in no way due to a contemporaneous arrangement.[64]
2016 (May 16th): Pastor Richardo Salazar was allegedly told by God that an asteroid fully made of ice, with a 9km diameter, traveling at 30,000km per hour would strike earth killing 1,200 million people. As you probably can tell, that definitely happened and those totally dead 1,200 million people will be forever missed.[65]
2016 (June 3-4): Modern scholars got the Mayan date wrong. It was never 2012, rather it was June 2016 and there are plenty of numbers involved.[66]
2016 (June 14th-August 19th): According to this super reliable, super honest, super definitely-NOT-bullshiting "NASA scientist", there was meant to be a magnetic reversal between June and August which would cause the Van Allen belt to fall killing 80% of life on Earth. He got this information from aliens via HAARP. Yup, aliens told our good 'ol uncle Dr. Sal that the sky is falling.[67]
2016 (October 31st): Walid Shoebat alleges that the world is "100% certain" to end on this exact arbitrary nutjob date. As the basis for this claim, he refers to his own science of "Futurology 101".[68]
2016 (Fall): Bible student and computer scientist Nora Roth on MarkBeast.com claims as much through a lot of numerology surrounding seventy "sevens".[69]
2016 (December): Bible student and computer scientist Nora Roth subsequently revised her claim to December.[70]
September 23, 2017: Nibiru/Planet X will again collide with Earth, the second prediction by David Meade.[71]. Plus a rare constellation alignment will start the Rapture[72]
October 2017: Initial forecast made by David Meade[73][74]
October 15, 2017: The third time's a charm by David Meade.[75]
2017: Various Christians say we'll be chipped, and the Great Tribulation will begin.[76]
2017 to 2113: Asteroids.[77]
2018: 24th of June, obscure crank Mathieu Jean-Marc Joseph Rodrigue ensures that doom is upon us, based on some middle school math.[78]
2018: Hal Lindsey — the Third Second Coming.
2018: The Bible guarantees May 20, 2018 Pentecost, or your money back.
2026: More asteroids.[79]
2028: Fred Clark — a tongue-in-cheek offer guaranteeing 15 years of Bible-prophecy hucksterism for four easy payments of $39.99.[80]
2030: Approximate date of a mass extinction event predicted by Bob Geldof. Myles Allen of Oxford University claims "Competing hyperbole" are unhelpful in understanding real climate change. [81]
2035: Even more asteroids.[82]
2036: Yet more asteroids.[83]
2037: Hal Lindsey — First Third Coming.
2038: Deterioration of the fundamental older technology that still underlies the most crucial systems today.[84]
2039: End of life, the universe and everything. Also known as the Ascension.
2040: Still more asteroids.[85] This seems to be a fan favourite.
2041: March 35th (sic) Not another asteroid.[86]
2085: The original prediction for Nibiru's collision with Earth, later deprecated to 2012 for more profits prophets.
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