Tag: Apocalypse

• A Brief Moment of History: Humanity’s Worst Year Ever?

  

  Ask anyone on the street when they think the worst year in human history was, and I’m sure there’d be quite a variety of answers offered. Years during the World Wars; when the Black Death swept Europe; or even more recent events like during the Covid pandemic. War and disease are probably the most significant…

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  June 10, 2025

  A Brief Moment of History

  536 AD, American History, Ancient China, Ancient History, Ancient Roman, Apocalypse, Asian History, European History, history, Justinian, Justinian Plague, Mesoamerican, Plague, Volcano

• Happy New Year, or End of the World? Early Modern Apocalypse Predictions

  

  If you’ve spent any time on social media in the last few weeks, or pretty much just spoken to anybody, then I am sure you will have heard the chorus of “I can’t wait for 2016 to be over!” “Worst year ever!” “2017 can’t surely be worse?!” and so on. It was only a few…

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  January 3, 2017

  Seasonal

  Apocalypse, Early Modern, Early Modern History, English History, European History, history, Medieval History, New Year, Nostradamus