Prophecy & Interpretation
Nostradamus & Bhavishya Malika Predictions
Nostradamus and Bhavishya Malika predictions, lined up in order — from history they’re said to match, to events still ahead.
This page brings together the best-known Nostradamus and Bhavishya Malika predictions. Each one is dated where possible and placed in order. First, you’ll see the predictions many people already link to real events. After that, you’ll find the ones both traditions say are still to come.
So, how reliable are these predictions? Not very, in a strict sense. Both texts use symbolic, layered language that is open to more than one reading. As a result, the “matches” below reflect popular and traditional interpretations. These were built up over time by commentators and, for the Bhavishya Malika, by the book’s own translators. They are not settled facts. Therefore, treat this page as a guide to what each tradition claims, rather than proof of what the future holds.
Nostradamus
Michel de Nostredame, 1503–1566Nostradamus wrote 942 quatrains in his book Les Prophéties. Most stay vague on purpose. Still, a handful name enough detail that readers, sometimes centuries later, have matched them to real events. Below, you’ll find the strongest of those matches, plus the verses many people believe are still waiting to happen.
Nostradamus predictions matched to history
1559 Death of King Henry II of France +
“Le lyon ieune le vieux surmontera… Dans cage d’or les yeux luy creuera…”
The young lion will overcome the older one, in a field of combat in single fight. He will pierce his eyes in their golden cage. Two wounds in one — then he dies a cruel death.
Henry II was fatally wounded in a jousting tournament when a lance splintered and pierced his gilded helmet, entering near the eye; he died days later. Commentators have long read “young lion” as his opponent, Gabriel de Montgomery, and the “golden cage” as the king’s ornate visor.
Les Prophéties, Century I, Quatrain 351649 The execution of King Charles I of England +
“Senat de Londres mettront à mort leur Roy…”
Ghent and Brussels will march against Antwerp; the Senate of London will put to death their King. Salt and wine will turn against him, so that they may have the kingdom in disarray.
Commentators have long read “the Senate of London” as the English Parliament. It tried and beheaded King Charles I in January 1649 — an almost unthinkable outcome for a reigning monarch at the time Nostradamus was writing.
Les Prophéties, Century IX, Quatrain 491792 The French Revolution’s “Year One” +
In his letter to Henry II, Nostradamus writes that a period of persecution of the Christian Church would begin. It would, he says, “last up to the year 1792, which they will believe to mark a renewal of time.” That detail lines up well with history. In September 1792, the French First Republic was proclaimed, and the revolutionary calendar declared it “Year One” of a new era. It is a specific dated claim, written some two centuries in advance — one commentators consider among his more striking hits.
Epistle to King Henry II
1666 The Great Fire of London +
“Le sang du iuste à Londres fera faute, Bruslez par foudres de vingt trois les six…”
The blood of the just will commit a fault at London. It is burnt through lightning of twenty-threes the six. The ancient lady will fall from her high place.
Popular interpretation reads the cryptic “twenty-threes the six” as pointing to the year 1666. That was when the Great Fire destroyed much of the City of London, including old St. Paul’s Cathedral (the “ancient lady”).
Les Prophéties, Century II, Quatrain 511791 Louis XVI’s failed flight to Varennes +
“De nuict viendra par la forest de Reines… Le moyne noir en gris dedans Varennes…”
By night he will come through the forest of “Reines”… the king disguised in grey, like a monk, inside Varennes: an elected “Capet” causes tempest, fire, blood, and the executioner’s blade.
This is widely cited as naming the place and manner of Louis XVI’s botched escape from Paris in June 1791. He was captured at Varennes while travelling in disguise. The line also names “Capet,” the House of Capet’s ancestral name, which revolutionaries later revived to strip Louis of his royal title and foreshadow his execution.
Les Prophéties, Century IX, Quatrain 20c. 1799–1815 The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte +
“Vn Empereur naistra pres d’Italie… Qu’on trouuera moins prince que boucher.”
An Emperor will be born near Italy, who will cost the Empire very dearly. They will say, when they see his allies, that he is less a prince than a butcher.
Commonly read as describing Napoleon, who was born on Corsica just off the Italian coast. His wars are estimated to have cost several million lives — and the “butcher” line is often cited as an early, unflattering character sketch.
Les Prophéties, Century I, Quatrain 60c. 1799–1815 Napoleon’s rise, named by anagram +
“PAU, NAY, LORON plus feu qu’à sang sera…”
Pau, Nay, Loron will be more of fire than blood; the great one will flee to the confluence.
“PAU, NAY, LORON” is a near-perfect anagram of “NAPAULON ROY” (Napoléon Roi — “King Napoleon”). Writers from the 19th century onward have cited this as an early hint at Bonaparte’s rise, decades before he was born.
Les Prophéties, Century VIII, Quatrain 11939–1945 Adolf Hitler and the Second World War +
“Bestes farouches de faim fleuues tranner; Plus part du champ encontre Hister sera…”
Ferocious beasts will swim across rivers from hunger. Most of the region will be against “Hister”… the great one will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage, when the German child observes nothing.
Three separate quatrains name a figure called “Hister” alongside the Rhine and Danube and troubled Germany. “Hister” is the old Latin name for the lower Danube, but it reads almost like “Hitler.” That resemblance led 20th-century commentators to read it as naming the dictator and the coming war. Some made the link even before WWII broke out.
Les Prophéties, Century II Q.24, Century IV Q.68, Century V Q.29Nostradamus predictions not yet fulfilled
Disputed — read for July 1999 The “Great King of Terror” +
“L’an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois, Du ciel viendra vn grand Roy d’effrayeur…”
The year 1999, seventh month: from the sky will come a great King of Terror. He comes, the verse says, to bring back the great King of the Mongols. Before and after, Mars will reign happily.
Nostradamus’s single most famous quatrain names an exact date, which is unusual for him. Nothing matching a world-shaking event occurred in July 1999. So believers have since re-read “1999” as a coded reference to a different year. Others simply treat the verse as still awaiting fulfillment — one of the most disputed passages in the whole work.
Les Prophéties, Century X, Quatrain 72No agreed date The coming of “Mabus” +
“Mabus plustost alors mourra, viendra, De gens & bestes vn horrible defaite…”
“Mabus” will soon die, and a horrible defeat of people and beasts will follow. Then, suddenly, vengeance will be seen — hundred, hand, hunger, when the comet runs.
The death of a person or force named “Mabus” is followed, in the text, by sweeping disaster and a passing comet. No consensus figure has ever been agreed upon. Interpreters keep proposing new candidates whenever a comet is in the news, treating it as an open, forward-looking prophecy.
Les Prophéties, Century II, Quatrain 62No date given A “Third Antichrist” and a generation of war +
In the long prose letter Nostradamus addressed to King Henry II, he describes a coming empire “of the Antichrist,” rising where Attila’s empire once stood. This, he writes, is preceded by an unusually dark solar eclipse in October. Pestilence and famine follow, then roughly twenty-five years in which “all the Kingdoms of Christianity will tremble.” Some believers count two earlier antichrist figures as already historical: commonly, Napoleon and Hitler. They treat this passage as describing a third, still-future figure and conflict.
Epistle to King Henry II
No agreed date Fire “at forty-five degrees” over a “great new city” +
“Cinq & quarante degrez ciel bruslera, Feu approcher de la grand cité neuue…”
At forty-five degrees the sky will burn, fire approaching the great new city. Instantly a great scattered flame will leap up, when proof will be demanded of the Normans.
This verse is one of the most frequently recirculated “unfulfilled” quatrains, often paired online with modern skylines and disasters. No city at exactly the 45th parallel has yet matched the verse in a way interpreters broadly agree on. The line about “the Normans” is also rarely addressed by those who cite it. That is why more careful readers treat it as still open, not resolved.
Les Prophéties, Century VI, Quatrain 97No agreed date The turn from a lunar to a solar age +
“Vingt ans du regne de la Lune passez… Quand le Soleil prendra ses iours lassez…”
When twenty years of the Moon’s reign have passed, another will take up its reign for seven thousand years. Once the exhausted Sun completes its cycle, the prophecy is accomplished and ended.
One of the few places where Nostradamus frames his prophecies as bound to a specific astrological cycle rather than a single event. Esoteric readers treat this as marking a long-range future age-change, not anything tied to a particular year. It remains one of the least agreed-upon verses in the collection.
Les Prophéties, Century I, Quatrain 48No date given The fall of the “chief King of Aquilon” (the North) +
Across many quatrains, and again at length in the Epistle to Henry II, Nostradamus describes recurring wars. These are driven by “Kings of Aquilon” (the North) against Eastern and Southern powers. These include an eleven-year persecution of the Church, ending only “when the chief King of Aquilon will fall.” Modern commentators keep reapplying this idea to different northern powers. Most recently that has meant Russia and its allies, but no settled consensus exists on who, or when.
Epistle to King Henry II, and scattered quatrains referencing “Aquilon”
Bhavishya Malika
The Panchasakha of Odisha — Achyutananda Das, Jagannath Das, Balaram Das, Yasovanta Das & Sisu Ananta Das, 15th–16th centuryThe Bhavishya Malika comes from five Odia poet-saints known together as the Panchasakha. Their writings center on the Jagannath Temple in Puri and describe signs marking the close of Kali Yuga. Because the text ties several signs to the temple itself, some are easier to date and check than a typical prophecy. Here’s how those claims line up, past and future.
Bhavishya Malika predictions matched to history
c. 16th–18th century Mughal-era upheaval in India +
Achyutananda Das and the other Panchasakha are said to have described coming crimes and disorder under Mughal rule, centuries before those events unfolded. Later commentators cite this as early confirmation of the text’s reliability.
Bhavishya Malika, attributed to Achyutananda Das
18th–20th century British colonization and the freedom struggle +
The text is said to foretell foreign colonization of the subcontinent, the long independence movement that followed, and India’s eventual independence and partition in 1947.
Bhavishya Malika, attributed to the Panchasakha
c. 6th century BCE The birth of Buddha, the first Kali Yuga incarnation +
Drawing on the Shreemad Bhagavat, the text names Lord Buddha as the first of three incarnations of Vishnu to appear within Kali Yuga. He was sent, it says, to end widespread animal sacrifice and restore compassion. The text’s commentators match this to the historical Buddha, generally dated to around the 6th century BCE.
Bhavishya Malika, Chapter 9
1486 The birth of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the second Kali Yuga incarnation +
The text names Shree Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as the second of three incarnations of Vishnu said to appear within Kali Yuga, following Buddha and preceding Kalki. He was born in Nadia, Bengal, and is credited with reviving Vaishnav devotion and the chanting of the Maha-Mantra.
Bhavishya Malika, Chapter 9
1990–91 Stone fall at the Jagannath Temple & India’s economic crisis +
Achyutananda Das wrote that a stone would one day fall from the “Amla Bedha,” the western inner gate of the Jagannath Temple at Puri. This, he said, would signal the close of Kali Yuga. A ton-plus, pot-shaped stone did fall from that structure on 16 June 1990, and investigators were reportedly unable to explain how. Separately, the text describes two changes at the temple, both during a time of national economic crisis. The lime coating peels, and the “Neela Chakra” — the metal wheel atop the temple — becomes deformed. Readers have matched this to India’s balance-of-payments crisis. It struck during Chandra Shekhar’s term as Prime Minister (1990–91), when the government pledged tons of gold reserves to secure emergency loans.
Bhavishya Malika, Achyutananda Das
Recorded as fulfilled, undated Broken Kalpavata branches & new temple servitors +
The Bhavishya Malika ties two events together. Branches break from the sacred Kalpavata, the wish-fulfilling banyan tree. At the same time, the Odisha government hires fresh servitors, “when Kalkidev is between 11 and 19 years old.” Both, the text’s commentary states, have already occurred. It treats this as confirming evidence that the prophesied age window has passed.
Bhavishya Malika / Chausathi Patala, Achyutananda Das
Recorded as fulfilled, undated A vulture on the Aruna Stambh & lightning in the temple kitchen +
Two further linked omens appear in the text: a vulture perching on the temple’s 34-foot Aruna Stambh pillar, and lightning striking the Jagannath Temple’s kitchen. Both are described as signs of Lord Jagannath having “departed” Nilachal in spirit. The commentary states both have already been observed.
Bhavishya Malika / Hari-Arjuna Chautisa, Achyutananda Das
2020 The Covid-19 pandemic +
The text describes “sixty-four types of epidemics” spreading across the earth as a sign of Kali Yuga’s end. Its translators cite this as fulfilled by the recent global pandemic.
Bhavishya Malika, attributed to the Panchasakha
Present day The 19th King of Puri, without an heir +
Jagannath Das, one of the Panchasakha, wrote that nineteen kings in succession would govern the Jagannath temple’s affairs, starting from Purushottam Dev. He added that the 19th would have no son to succeed him. The current titular Gajapati Maharaja of Puri, Dibya Singha Deb IV, is counted as this 19th king. The text’s commentary reads this as confirmation that Kali Yuga’s 5,000-year span, and the 5,125th year it cites, have already closed.
Bhavishya Malika, Jagannath Das
Bhavishya Malika predictions not yet fulfilled
Ongoing / worsening Rising seas and intensifying floods +
Following the vulture-and-falling-stone omens, the text warns that sea levels will rise sharply and flooding will follow. It describes this as already becoming visible, but with “many more significant crises still to come.”
Bhavishya Malika, Achyutananda Das
No date given Meteoroid strikes on the land of Jagannath +
The text foretells frequent meteoroid strikes on the holy land of Puri as a late-stage sign, alongside an owl sitting atop the temple in daylight. Its commentary states the owl sighting has occurred but the meteoroid strikes have not yet — and are expected soon.
Bhavishya Malika, Achyutananda Das
From 2025–26, over roughly eight years Saturn’s entry into Pisces triggers the final chain of disasters +
The book’s preface states that Saturn (Shani) entering the sign of Pisces (Meena Rashi) in 2025 marks the starting point for eight forecast calamities. These are: a Third World War, shortages of food grain, cyclones and tornadoes, floods and tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, famine, and further pandemics. It adds that digital technology and communication systems are expected to fail during this period, compounding the other disasters.
Bhavishya Malika, translator’s preface
From 2026 onward A Third World War fought with nuclear weapons +
This is listed as the first of the eight disasters tied to Saturn’s 2025 shift into Pisces. A global war involving nuclear weapons is described within the wider Bhavishya Malika tradition as part of the turbulence marking the transition out of Kali Yuga. Detailed verses on this event are noted by the translator as reserved for a forthcoming second volume.
Bhavishya Malika, attributed to the Panchasakha
From 2026 onward Escalating famine, cyclones, quakes and eruptions worldwide +
Alongside the coming war, the text forecasts a cluster of compounding disasters in the same window. These include shortages of food grain leading to famine and starvation, more frequent cyclones and tornadoes, and destructive floods and tsunamis. Dormant volcanoes wake, it says, and earthquakes strike “continually, almost daily” in many parts of the world.
Bhavishya Malika, translator’s preface & Chapter 6
From 2026 onward Failure of digital technology and communication systems +
As part of the same forecast window, the text says digital technologies and communication systems will fail worldwide. This worsens the impact of the other disasters it describes. It is one of the more specific and unusual claims in the book, given how recent the underlying technology is.
Bhavishya Malika, translator’s preface
From 2026 onward Continuing pandemics beyond Covid-19 +
The “sixty-four types of epidemics” the text describes are treated by its translators as only partly fulfilled by the Covid-19 pandemic. Further waves of disease are listed among the disasters still expected before Kali Yuga’s influence fully recedes.
Bhavishya Malika, Chapter 6
No date given The polar ice caps begin to melt +
Among the “forthcoming changes in nature,” the text states that the Sun’s rays will grow far more intense. As a result, it says, “the northern and southern polar ice caps will begin to melt” — listed alongside coastal changes from cyclones and rising tides.
Bhavishya Malika, Chapter 6
No date given The Sun and Moon vanish for seven days +
This is one of the final celestial signs before the transition completes. The text says the Sun and Moon “will not be visible for seven days and seven nights,” plunging the Earth into complete darkness. After that, Lord Kalki is said to establish a new Sun, a new Moon, and new constellations.
Bhavishya Malika, Chapter 6
No date given Widespread desecration and abandonment of temples +
The text lists a cluster of signs centered on places of worship. Temples are struck by lightning and their flags burned, idols are stolen, and rites are performed by priests after consuming meat and alcohol. Shrines are ultimately abandoned by their deities as a result. This, the text says, is one of the clearest markers that the transition out of Kali Yuga is under way.
Bhavishya Malika, Chapter 6
Undated, within this era The birth and recognition of the Kalki Avatar +
The text cross-references the Shreemad Bhagavat, the Mahabharata’s Vana Parva, and the Bhavishya Malika itself. Together, they identify Lord Vishnu’s tenth incarnation, Kalki. He is due to be born to a Brahmin family in “Sambhut Sambal,” a village in the Biraja Kshetra region of Jajpur district, Odisha. It is not the more commonly cited Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh.
Bhavishya Malika, cross-referenced with Shreemad Bhagavat & Mahabharata
Undated, within this era Kalki’s father named as a Brahmin called Vishnuyasha +
The Shreemad Bhagavat verse behind the Sambhut Sambal prophecy also names Kalki’s father: a devout Brahmin called Vishnuyasha, said to sing the Lord’s glories daily. The Bhavishya Malika repeats this detail in its own account of the birth. That gives future readers a second identifying mark to watch for, alongside the village name.
Bhavishya Malika, corroborating Shreemad Bhagavat Mahapurana, Canto 12, Chapter 2, Verse 18
By 2032 The dawn of Satya Yuga +
The text’s translators state that by 2032, all major and minor faiths will assimilate. Together they form what the tradition calls the single eternal religion, Satya Sanatan Dharma. This is the culmination of the present transitional “Ananta Yuga.” Devotees gather into sixteen worldwide groups (mandals) around the Kalki Avatar. That marks the full onset of the Satya Yuga, the Golden Age.
Bhavishya Malika, attributed to the Panchasakha