The first big fake 'world-is-supposed-end' episode occurred in 1033 AD.
What you can generally say....some Catholic authorities proclaimed that Jesus had been dead for 1,000 years, and that on this particular year (1033)....a second-coming was going to occur, and that the end of 'times' was discussed openly.
It's safe to say that panic started up in Europe, and spread around to the four corners.
Folks prepared for the end....gave up farming....sought refuge because they expected bad times. Going with this....a pretty crappy spring weather period started up, and helped to convince folks this was all tied together.
By the end of the year....to explain this in a religious way....why the end had not come....the Catholic folks said that Jesus didn't necessarily die in 1033....that it might have been 1034 or 1035. They seemed to be not that sure about the event.
The fact that this is not talked much about today? I think a lot of Church leadership in the decade after 1033....were fairly embarrassed about how things occurred, and how some folks literally destroyed their lives over the anticipation of the end-of-times chatter.
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