Endless Doomsday Predictions Throughout History

Crazy fact: Over 200 apocalyptic predictions have failed throughout history,

yet people keep making them. The earliest recorded doomsday prediction dates back to 634

BC when Romans thought their city would fall after 120 years. Spoiler alert, it didn't.

Religious leaders have been particularly creative with end times. In 1844,

thousands of Americans sold their belongings waiting for Jesus to return on October 22nd.

When nothing happened, they called it the Great Disappointment. Harold Camping predicted the rapture would

happen in 2011, not once but twice in the same year. Both dates came and went.

Even scientists joined the party. Isaac Newton calculated the world would end in 2060 based