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==Astronomical events== |
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*3711/12: multi-triple conjunction between [[Jupiter]], [[Saturn]], [[Uranus]] and [[Neptune]] |
*3711/12: multi-triple conjunction between [[Jupiter]], [[Saturn]], [[Uranus]] and [[Neptune]] |
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*3797: According to [[Nostradamus]]' prophecy, the [[Sun]] will expand and become a [[red giant]], and nearby planets (such as [[Earth]]) will be destroyed. |
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The 38th century of the Anno Domini (common) era will span the years 3701–3800 of the Gregorian calendar. It will be the eighth century of the 4th millennium.
Astronomical events
- 3797: According to Nostradamus' prophecy, the Sun will expand and become a red giant, and nearby planets (such as Earth) will be destroyed.
Fiction
- In the year 3781, according to Walter Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz ("Fiat Voluntas Tua"), a second nuclear holocaust destroys all life on Earth. However, survivors escape to human interstellar colonies.
- Nostradamus' prophecies would extend to the year 3797; although not being considered as the end of the world.[1]
- 3798 is the year in which Michael Wang's "The Cosmos" mostly takes place.
Decades and years
References
- ^ de Nostredame, Michel (1555). "Preface". Les Propheties.
...I have composed books of prophecies, containing each one hundred astronomic quatrains of forecasts, which I have tried to polish through obscurely, and which are perpetual vaticinations, from now to the year 3797.