Forgotten Ages Research

The Nostradamus Keys to Decipherment—An Overview of Past Prophecies

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• A synopsis of all the Nostradamian quatrains for which past fulfillments are claimed, and the subject matter and historical setting for each

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What is offered here is a synopsis of all the Nostradamian quatrains for which past fulfillments are claimed, and the subject matter and historical setting for each. The time range is from 1555, when the first edition of Les Vrayes Centuries appeared, and the end of the twentieth century. Where more than one interpretation has merit in fitting the verse, both are included. As is apparent in the study presented, there are several of the verses designated below as having past applications which have not been fully fulfilled as yet. These have had, and will have, more than one historical “moment.”

Here is the placement and distribution of the fulfilled quatrains:

Century I

Q3. (A) French Revolution, 1789–1793; (B) Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917–1922.
Q4. Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804.
Q5. Catholic and Huguenot wars in France, late 16th century.
Q6. Papal States incorporated into Italy, 1870.
Q7. Murder of the Czar’s family, 1918.
Q8. Paris under siege by Henry Navarre, 1590.
Q9. Henry Navarre’s troubles with the Duke of Parma; the siege of Malta, 1590.
Q10. Burial of the last member of the Valois royal line, 1610.
Q11. Cooperation between Fascist Italy and Falangist Spain, 1938– 1945.
Q12. Death of Napoleon, Congress of Verona, 1821–1822. Q14. Russian Revolution, 1917.
Q15. Communist rule of Soviet Union, persecution of Russian Eastern Orthodox Church for 70-year period, 1917–1987.
Q18. Chaos in France and its North African colonies, 1940.
Q19. (A) Troubles between France and Spain, 1589–1594; (B) French involvement in the Spanish Civil War; the Fall of France, 1936–1940.
Q20. Liberation of France by Allied forces, 1944–1945.
Q21. Mining and refinement of uranium; dangers of nuclear waste disposal, 20th century.
Q23. Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Q24. Nuremburg Trials, 1945.
Q25. Career of Louis Pasteur, 1822–1895.
Q26. Assassinations of John and Robert Kenney, 1963 and 1968.
Q28. British hold Tobruk, 1941.
Q29. Allied amphibious and aerial invasion, D-Day, 1944.
Q31. Allied peace treaty with Japan, 1945.
Q32. Abdication of Napoleon, banishment to St. Helens, 1815.
Q34. Pre-World War II France, 1939–1940.
Q35. Death of Henry II in a joust, 1559.
Q36. Assassination of Henry III, 1589.
Q38. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, 1815.
Q39. (A) Assassination of the Duc de Conde, 1651; (B) Assassination of the last Conde, 1830.
Q40. Mustafa Kemal declares Turkey a republic; Egypt gains mandate from the League of Nations, 1922.
Q41. Siege of Leningrad, 1942–1943.
Q42. Change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 1582.
Q44. Cult of Reason established by the French Revolution, 1794.
Q47. (A) Failure of the League of Nations at Geneva, 1920–1939; (B) Initial failure of the Disarmament Talks.
Q49. Peter the Great declares war on Sweden, takes territory from the Turks, 1700.
Q50. Birth of the United States, 1776; War in the Pacific, 1941-1945.
Q51. War of the Spanish Succession, 1702.
Q52. Sultan Selim III deposed and murdered; Napoleon’s persecution of the Church, 1807.
Q53. Rise of Islamic world through control of oil; rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, 1980’s.
Q54. Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, beginning of World War I.
Q55. Tientsin earthquake in China, killing 70,000 people, 1976.
Q57. Execution of Louis XVI, 1793.
Q58. Transformation within the ruling houses of France, 1789–1900.
Q59. Coup d’Etat of 1857.
Q60. Career of Napoleon, 1769–1815.
Q61. Franco-Prussian War, 1870.
Q62. Writings of Voltaire and Rousseau leading to the Age of Reason, 18th century.
Q63. Period between the World Wars, 1919-1939.
Q64. Aerial warfare, radios, first use of atomic bomb, 1945.
Q65. “Oath of the Tennis Court,” end of French monarchy, 1789.
Q67. Major drought and famine in Africa and India, 1980’s.
Q68. Execution of the Capetian family, 1793–1795.
Q70. Fall of the Shah of Iran, returnof the Ayatollah Khomeini from France, 1979.
Q72. Vichy regime of Marshall Petain, 1940–1943.
Q76. Career of Napoleon, 1789–1815.
Q77. Battle of Trafalgar, 1805.
Q78. Formation of the Vichy government under Marshall Petain, 1940.
Q79. Industrialization of northern France, polarization with agricultural southern France, 1880’s through 1980’s.
Q81. U.S. Supreme Court issues harmful decisions for the nation, 1960’s to 1980’s.
Q82. (A) Fall of the Hapsburg rulers in Austria, 1918; (B) Assassination of Chancellor Dolfuss, 1934.
Q83. Mussolini’s Italian forces occupy Greece, 1940.
Q84. Assassination of the Duc de Barry, 1820.
Q85. Trouble between Catherine de Medici and Henry III, 1588.
Q86. Escape of Mary, Queen of Scots to England, 1568.
Q88. Rise of the Roundheads to power in England, 1625–1649.
Q89. Wellington’s Peninsular Wars, 1808–1814.
Q91. Cold War between U.S. and U.S.S.R., 1945–1989.
Q92. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941.
Q93. Pre-War France and England; Germans occupy Austria, 1938– 1939.
Q94. Battle of Lepanto, Venetian fleet’s victory over the Turks, 1571.
Q97. Assassination of Henry III, 1589.
Q98. Napoleon flees from Egypt, 1798–1799.
Q100. Death of the Comte de Chambord, 1883.

Century II

Q1. Allied invasion of Gallipoli, 1915.
Q2. Rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, 1980–1985.
Q5. Submarine warfare during World War II, 1939–1945.
Q6. Nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, 1945.
Q9. Franklin Roosevelt, President for 9 years, before bringing the U.S. into World War II, 1932–1941.
Q10. Disappearance of Church power, 20th century.
Q11. Reign of Napoleon III, 1852–1870.
Q12. Suppression of French clergy, 1790.
Q13. Language of Mass changed from Latin to the vernacular, by Second Vatican Council, 1964.
Q14. Intrigues of Catherine de Medici, 1542–1599.
Q15. Death of John Paul I; election of John Paul II; revelations of Church financial scandals, 1978–1988.
Q16. Rise of Mussolini’s Fascists in Italy; their defeat by the Allies, 1922–1945.
Q18. Deaths of Henry III and the de Guise brothers, 1589.
Q19. Return of the Jews to Palestine, 1939–1948; Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948–1973.
Q24. Rise of Hitler, 1936–1941.
Q25. Betrayal of Bazaine to the Prussians, 1870.
Q38. Nuremburg Trials and Yalta Conference, 1945.
Q39. Alignment of European nations at the beginning of World War II, 1939.
Q40. Naval and submarine battles during World War II, 1939–1945.
Q42. Reign of Terror under Robespierre, 1794.
Q43. Leo XIII; formation of the Triple Entente, 1881–1914.
Q44. Napoleon’s marriage to Marie Louise of Austria; his Russian defeat, 1812.
Q46. Industrial Revolution; steam, electric, nuclear power, global pollution, 19th and 20th centuries.
Q50. Uprising of the Netherlands, 1568.
Q51. Great Fire of London, 1666.
Q53. Great Plague of London, 1665.
Q57. John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Pay of Pigs Invasion, 1962–1963.
Q63. Defeat of the Duke of Parma by Henry Navarre, 1590.
Q64. Revolt of the Cevannes Calvinists against the Edict of Nantes, 1685.
Q66. Escape of Napoleon from Elba, 1815.
Q67. William of Orange’s dethronement of James II, 1688; Battle of Cap de la Hague, 1692.
Q68. Return of Charles II to the British throne; Dutch fleet before London, 1660.
Q69. Fall of Charles X, 1830.
Q70. Aerial bombing of London, 1940–1942.
Q71. United Nations adopts partition plan for Palestine, British forces withdrawn 1947.
Q76. Career of Tallyrand, 1778–1814.
Q77. Fall of Paris, 1871.
Q78. Advent of AIDS disease out of Africa, 1980’s.
Q79. Don John of Austria in the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
Q83. Massacre and pillaging of Lyons, 1795.
Q86. Napoleon’s Egypt Campaign, 1798–1799.
Q87. Accession of George of Hanover to the British throne as George I, 1714.
Q88. The deaths of the Valois royal line, 1559–1589.
Q89. Beginning of détente between East and West; American economic supremacy; Cultural Revolution in China, 1970’s.
Q90. Hungarian Revolution, 1957.
Q92. First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 1945.
Q94. Napoleonic Wars, 1795–1815.
Q97. (A) Death of Pius VI at Valence, 1799; (B) Assassination attempt on John Paul II, 1981.
Q100. Knights of St. John sent to defend Malta, 1565.

Century III

Q4. Iran-Iraq War, 1980–1988.
Q7. Fall of France, 1940.
Q8. German and French involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1938.
Q9. Germans occupy Vichy France; Allies liberate Rouen, 1942– 1944.
Q14. Bankruptcy of France under Louis XV, 1712–1726.
Q15. Regency of Duc d’Orleans, 1715. Q18. La Belle Epoque, 1900–1913; World War I battles in the Marne, 1914–1918.
Q20. Expulsion of Jews from Spain, 1610.
Q22. Israeli-Egyptian Six-Day War, 1967.
Q25. Accession of Henry Navarre as Henry IV of France, 1594.
Q27. France’s troubles with Khadafy of Libya over Chad, 1980’s.
Q30. Assassination of Coligny, 1572.
Q31. Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
Q32. Division of European nations during World War II, 1939–1945.
Q35. (A) Birth of Napoleon on Corsica, 1769; (B) Birth of Hitler in Austria, 1889.
Q37. Defeat of Milan by Napoleon, 1796 and 1800.
Q38. Defeat and eventual Liberation of France, 1940-1944.
Q39. Napoleon’s Italian Campaigns, 1796–1797.
Q41. Death of Prince Louis de Conde, 1569.
Q44. Discoveries of electricity, 1752, and radio communications, 1901.
Q45. French defeat at Toulouse, 1814.
Q49. France becomes an Empire; inception of the Code Napoleon, 1804.
Q50. (A) Rebellion of Paris against Henry III; death of the de Guises and Henry III, 1559–1589.
Q51. Assassination of the de Guise brothers; revolt of Orleans, 1588.
Q52. Britain’s defeat of France, 1815.
Q53. German invasion of France through Holland and Belgium, 1914 and 1940.
Q54. Triumph of Franco in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1938.
Q55. Wounding and death of Henry II; death of the de Guises and Henry III, 1559–1589.
Q57. Seven changes in British royalty and government, (A) 1558– 1848; (B) 1628-1918.
Q58. Career of Adolph Hitler, 1889–1945.
Q59. Reign of Terror and ascension of Napoleon, 1789–1799.
Q63. Rise of Mussolini and Hitler, 1923–1944.
Q65. Death of John Paul I, 1979.
Q66. (A) Execution of the Baillif d’Orleans, 1569; (B) Execution of Philippe d’Orleans, 1793.
Q67. Rise of the Nazis in Germany, 1926–1939.
Q68. Allied defeat at Sebastopol in Crimean War, 1854–1855.
Q71. Blockage of Britain by Germany, 1939–1942.
Q73. Career of the Duc de Bordeaux, 1841–1870.
Q75. Spread of AIDS throughout Europe, 1980’s.
Q76. Rise and fall of the Nazis in Germany, 1926–1945.
Q77. Peace treaty between Persia and Turkey, 1727.
Q80. Escape and return of Charles I; rise of Cromwell, 1646–1649.
Q81. English Civil War, 1642–1649.
Q83. First accession of Louis XVIII, 1814.
Q84. Sack of Rome, exile of Pius VI, 1798–1799. Q87. Thirty Years’ War, French fleet sunk off Corsica, 1646.
Q88. Blockage of Marseilles by the Spanish fleet, 1596.
Q89. United Nations intervention in Cyprus, 1964; King Constantine and Queen Fredericka exiled from Greece, 1967.
Q91. Exile of the Duc de Bordeaux and Charles X, 1830.
Q95. Decline of Islam in Asia; rise of Communism in Russia, 1917.
Q96. Assassination of the Duc de Berry, 1820.
Q97. Creation of the state of Israel, 1948; Six Day War, 1967.
Q98. Quarrel between Louis XIII and his brother, the Duc d’Orleans, 1632.
Q100. Assassination of Admiral Darlan; rise of de Gaulle, 1942.

Century IV

Q1. Fall of Cyprus to the Turks, 1571.
Q2. War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–1713.
Q5. War of the Spanish Succession, 1701–1713.
Q7. Death of the King of Rome, Napoleon II, 1832.
Q8. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, assassination of Coligny, 1572.
Q11. Committee of Twelve, 1793.
Q12. After initial defeats, eventual victory of French armies during World War I, 1914–1918.
Q13. Defeat of the Duke of Parma, Dutch capture Antwerp, 1580’s.
Q14. Cuban Missile Crisis, assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1962– 1963.
Q16. Garibaldi and the Thousand of Genoa, 1859.
Q18. Condemnation by the Church of the works of Copernicus and Galileo, 1616–1633.
Q20. Advent of the French Revolution, 1789.
Q21. Petain and de Gaulle, 1940-1945.
Q22. French defeat at the Battle of Nations, Leipzig, 1813.
Q23. Attack on Genoa by Louis XIV, 1684.
Q25. Invention of the telescope by the Dutch; its first major use by Galileo, 1610.
Q26. Members of the Directorate give way to Napoleon’s Consulate, 1799.
Q28. Career of Voltaire, 1704–1778.
Q36. French victories in Italy and Spain, 1797–1808.
Q37. Genoa besieged by Austria; British attack on Morocco; French cross the Alps, 1800.
Q40. Suicide of Hitler in his Berlin bunker, 1945.
Q45. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo due to the failure of Marshal Grouchy, 1815.
Q49. (A) Assassination of John F. Kennedy; (B) Assassination of Robert Kennedy, 1968.
Q50. Career of Napoleon, 1795–1815.
Q51. Hitler’s Nuremburg rallies; concentration camps, 1936–1945.
Q59. Defeat for Axis powers in Europe; Teheran Conference, 1945.
Q60. Assassination of the de Guises and Henry III, 1588–1589.
Q61. Allied liberation of Chartres, Orleans and Rouen; deportation of Petain, 1944.
Q62. (A) Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise, 1560; (B) rise of Oliver Cromwell, 1642–1649.
Q63. Marshal Villar’s campaign against the Cevannes, 1702–1704.
Q64. Fall of the Shah of Iran; American hostage crisis, 1979–1980.
Q65. Fall of Louis Philippe and rise of Napoleon III, 1852.
Q67. Ethiopian famines of 1985, 1987 and 1989.
Q68. Meeting between Hitler and Mussolini; formation of the Axis with Japan, 1941.
Q70. Wellington’s attack on France from Spain, 1812.
Q73. Assassination of the Duc de Berry; rise of Louis Napoleon, 1820.
Q75. Napoleon’s disastrous retreat from Moscow, 1812; defeat at Waterloo, 1815.
Q76. Huguenot-Catholic conflicts, late 1500’s.
Q80. Construction and failure of the Maginot Line, 1920–1940.
Q81. Attack by Philip II over the Scheldt River, 1560.
Q82. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, 1812–1813.
Q85. Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, 1793; death of the Dauphin, 1795.
Q88. Surrender of Antoine de Bourbon, death at Rouen, 1561–1552.
Q89. Glorious Revolution, accession of William of Orange, 1688.
Q93. Career of the Comte de Chambord, 1820–1883.
Q96. American Revolution begins, 1776.
Q97. Portugal seized by Spain, until 1640.
Q100. Seven month siege of Paris by the Prussians, 1870–1871.

Century V

Q1. Conflict in Northern Ireland; assassination of the British ambassador, 1976.
Q3. Career of the Duc de Lorraine, 1737.
Q4. Opening Allied offenses during World War II, 1939–1941.
Q5. Affair of the Diamond Necklace, leading to the French Revolution, 1789.
Q6. Accession of Napoleon III, 1852.
Q8. Nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945.
Q9. Assassination attempt on Napoleon III, 1858.
Q10. Assassination attempt on Napoleon III, 1858.
Q11. Defeat of the Axis powers in Europe and the Pacific, 1943– 1945.
Q12. Battle of Augsburg, 1636.
Q13. (A) Thirty Years’ War, Treaties of Westphalia and the Pyrenees, 1648 and 1659; (B) Europe divided into NATO and Warsaw Pact Nations, 1945–1989.
Q14. Capture of Malta; Papal States ceded to France, 1798; Peninsular Wars, 1807–1808.
Q15. Imprisonment of Pius VII, sack of Rome, 1808.
Q16. Holocaust of the Jews; invasion of Greece; attack on Tobruk, 1941.
Q20. Napoleon III’s invasion across the Alps into Italy, 1859; Garibaldi’s revolt, 1860–1867.
Q26. Russian Revolution, 1917; Soviet invasion and dominance of Eastern Europe, 1945–1989.
Q28. Assassination of King Umberto of Italy, 1900.
Q29. Alliance between Hitler and Mussolini at Venice, 1934; Vatican neutrality during the War.
Q30. French sack Rome, 1797 and 1808.
Q33. Massacre of the citizens of Nantes, 1793.
Q37. Legislature Assembly decides Louis XVI should stand trial for treason, 1792.
Q38. Career of Louis XV and Louis XVI, 1703–1793.
Q39. Career of Victor Emmanuel II; Florence the capital of Italy, 1860.
Q40. Career of Charles de Gaulle, 1940–1970.
Q42. Savoy’s return to France, Treaty of Turin, 1860.
Q45. French defeat at Battle of Sedan, (A) 1870; (B) 1940.
Q51. European alliances at the outset of World War II, 1939.
Q56. Careers of John XXIII and Paul VI, 1958–1978.
Q57. Invention of the Montgolfier balloon; reign of Pius VI; French successes in Italy, 1793–1797.
Q58. Duc de Rohan’s aid to besieged Nimes, 1627.
Q60. St. Bartholomew’s Massacre, 1572.
Q63. Allied landing at Salerno; capture of Rome, 1943–1944.
Q67. Troubled relation of Sixtus V with Henry III and Henry IV, 1589– 1595.
Q69. Louis Philippe usurps throne of France, French conquest of Algeria, 1830.
Q72. Career of Abraham Lincoln, 1860–1865.
Q81. Fall of France in seven days, 1940.
Q85. Failure of the League of Nations leading to World War II, 1919–1939.
Q90. Greek independence; Crimean War, 1854–1856.
Q92. Reigns of Pius XII through John Paul II, 1939–2005.
Q93. Career of Charles I, 1600–1649.
Q94. Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Russia, 1939; Russian invasion of Germany and Austria, 1945.
Q99. Liberation of Italy by Allied forces; Montgomery holds Rome, 1943–1944.

Century VI

Q2. Civil war in France, 1580; War of the Spanish Succession, 1703.
Q3. Coronation of Napoleon as Emperor by Pius VII, 1804.
Q4. Alsace and Lorraine ceded to Germany following the Franco- Prussian War, 1870.
Q7. German invasion of Norway, France and the Balkans, war with Britain, 1940–1942.
Q11. The three Valois children left alive in 1575; murder of the de Guises, 1588.
Q12. European alignments during the Napoleonic Wars, 1795–1815.
Q14. Capture of King Sebastian of Portugal in Morocco, 1578.
Q23. Reign of Terror begins in Paris, 1793.
Q25. Napoleon’s overthrow of the Directorate, 1799.
Q26. Careers of John XXIII and Paul VI, 1958–1978.
Q29. Catherine de Medici and Henry III, 1589.
Q30. German invasion of Holland and Belgium, 1914 and 1940.
Q33. Racial riots in the United States, 1950’s to 1970’s.
Q37. Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963.
Q40. End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1803-1806.
Q41. House of Orange attains rulership of Britain, 1688.
Q45. Scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon, 1942.
Q49. Rise of the Nazis; concentration camps; Papal neutrality, 1936–1945.
Q51. Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815.
Q52. Death of the Dauphin, Louis XVII, 1795.
Q56. Siege of Perpignan, 1597.
Q57. Career of Robespierre, 1789–1793.
Q60. Siege of La Rochelle, 1625–1628.
Q62. Henry IV’s conversion to Catholicism; occupation of Savoy, 1593–1596.
Q63. Regency of Catherine de Medici, 1559–1589.
Q67. Napoleon and Josephine, 1796–1809.
Q68. Suppression of Spanish army revolt in the Netherlands by the Duke of Alba, 1567.
Q69. Catholic clergy disbanded in France, 1792.
Q72. Rasputin and the Russian Czarina, 1907–1916.
Q74. Career of Elizabeth I, 1533–1603.
Q75. (A) Career of Coligny, 1552–1570; (B) Career of Don John of Austria, 1571–1578.
Q79. Napoleon at the Battle of Lodi, 1796.
Q83. Philip II, revolt in Holland, war with Henry IV, 1558–1598.
Q90. Failure of the Munich Conference, 1938.
Q92. Execution of Louis XVI, 1793.

Century VII

Q1. Career of Achilles de Harlay, 1617.
Q11. Quarrel between Louis XIII and Marie de Medici, 1610–1617.
Q13. Napoleon takes Toulon, overthrows the Directorate, 1793; fourteen-year career as absolute ruler, 1799–1815.
Q14. Beginning of French Departments; end of the monarchy in France, 1789.
Q16. Mary Tudor; English lose Calais, 1558.
Q17. Assassination of Henry IV, 1610.
Q19. French regain Nice, 1705.
Q20. Congress of Paris, 1854.
Q25. End of World War I; collapse of French currency, 1918–1919.
Q26. Battle of Trafalgar, 1805.
Q29. Duke of Alba against Paul IV; war against de Guise, 1557.
Q31. Garibaldi’s wars of unification, 1860.
Q33. Fall of France, 1940.
Q34. Occupation of France by the Germans, 1940–1944.
Q35. Henry III as ruler of both Poland and France, 1573–1589.
Q38. Accidental death of Crown Prince Ferdinand, 1842.
Q42, Add. Careers of Innocent X and Cardinal Mazarin, 1644–1661.
Q44, Add. Career of Louis XVI, 1774–1793.
Q73, Add. Pius VII held captive at Fontainbleu, 1810.
Q80, Add. American Revolution, 1774–1781; career of John Paul Jones

Century VIII

Q1. Career of Napoleon; relation with the Papacy, 1798–1814.
Q4. Monaco becomes a part of France under Cardinal Richelieu, 1627.
Q6. Turkish attack on Malta; conspiracy of Amboise, 1565–1566.
Q12. Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel enter Milan, 1859.
Q14. Spanish plunder of gold from the Americas, 1519–1713.
Q15. Career of Catherine the Great of Russia, partitioning of Poland, 1729–1796.
Q19. Execution of the royal family, and Robespierre, 1793–1794.
Q22. Career of Gersas and Narbon; fleeing royal family discovered at Varennes, 1791.
Q23. Intrigues of Mary, Queen of Scots in the death of Lord Darnley, 1567.
Q26. Louis XIII’s siege of Barcelona and occupation of Montferont, 1640.
Q28. Stock Market Crash, Great Depression, 1929–1936.
Q31. Capitulation of Victor Emmanuel to Mussolini, 1922.
Q33. Career of Mussolini, 1883–1945.
Q34. Major floodings in the Sudan, Ethiopia and Bangladesh killing millions, 1988.
Q37. Capture and execution of Charles I, 1648–1649.
Q40. Charles II’s capitulation at Edinburgh, 1650.
Q41. Career of Robespierre, 1789–1794.
Q42. Defeat of Louis Philippe at the Battle of St. Meri, 1848.
Q43. Surrender of Napoleon III at Sedan, 1870.
Q45. Torture and death of the Dauphin, Louis XVII, 1795.
Q50. Capture of Tunis by Don John of Austria, 1573.
Q53. Napoleon’s failed plans for the invasion of England, 1797.
Q56. Battle of Dunbar near Edinburgh, 1650.
Q57. (A) Career of Oliver Cromwell, 1620–1658; (B) Career of Napoleon, 1793–1815.
Q58. James II flees to France, 1688.
Q60. France loses Lorraine, 1870.
Q65. The twenty-month rule of Marshall Petain, 1940–1942; German occupation of all France, 1942–1944.
Q68. Resignation and death of Cardinal Richelieu, 1642.
Q71. Council of Malines, 1607; condemnation of Copernicus and Galileo, 1616–1633.
Q75. Assassination of Carlos I and Louis Philippe of Portugal, 1908.
Q76. English Civil War, Cromwell’s Protectorate, 1642–1656.
Q81. Russian counter-offensive in Eastern Europe; Allied landing in Sicily; fall of Petain, 1944.
Q85. Abdication and death of Napoleon, 1814–1821.
Q87. Election, flight to Varennes, execution of Louise XVI, 1789– 1793.
Q88. Charles Emmanuel IV’s three-year exiled reign in Sardinia, 1798–1802; joined the Jesuits in Rome, 1819.
Q92. Career of Mao Tse-tung; Long March; Communist China and the Cultural Revolution, 1937–1976.
Q94. English attack on Cadiz, 1596.
Q2, Add. Challenges of peace for the United Nations, 1945–1989.
Q3, Add. Franco-German Treaty, leading to the EEC, 1963.
Q4, Add. Challenges of peace to the United Nations, 1945–1989.

Century IX

Q2. Career of Mussolini, 1883–1945.
Q3. Unifications of Italy and Germany, 1870.
Q5. Louis Napoleon’s involvement with the Italian Revolution, 1831.
Q7. Discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt; mysterious deaths of its British discoverers, 1922.
Q11. Execution of Charles I; Great Fire and Plague of London, 1649–1666.
Q16. Career of Rivera and Franco in Spain, 1936–1939.
Q17. (A) Mass execution during French Revolution, 1789–1795; (B) Concentration camps, 1935–1945.
Q18. Execution of Montmorency, 1632.
Q20. Flight and capture of the royal family at Varennes, 1791.
Q21. Massacres during French Revolution, 1792–1793.
Q29. Return of Calais and St. Quentin to France, 1559; Peace of Vervins, 1598.
Q33. Career of Charles de Gaulle, 1940–1970.
Q34. Storming of the Tuileries Palace, 1792.
Q35. Career of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, 1912–1918.
Q36. Assassination of the Kennedy brothers, 1963 and 1968.
Q40. Battle of St. Quentin, 1557.
Q42. Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
Q49. Execution of Charles I, 1649.
Q50. Claimants to the throne of France, 1589.
Q52. Peace between France and Spain; Huguenot-Catholic war, 1559.
Q53. Millions of deaths at Auschwitz, Dachau and Birkenau; assassination attempt on Hitler, 1944.
Q55. End of World War I; influenza epidemic, 1917–1918.
Q58. Career of Mirabeau, 1790-1791; Battle of Valmy, 1792.
Q61. Siege of Malta, 1565; Venetian fleet’s participation at Lepanto and Messina, 1571.
Q64. Overthrow of Philip V, 1706.
Q65. Armstrong lands on the Moon, 1969; Challenger shuttle disaster, 1986.
Q68. Sack of Lyons by orders of the Montagnard Amar, 1793.
Q77. Deaths of Marie Antoinette, Madame du Berry and Louis XVII, 1793–1795.
Q86. Henry Navarre’s siege of Paris and coronation as Henry V, 1589–1594.
Q88. Fall of Calais, 1558.
Q89. Seven prosperous years of Louis Philippe, 1840–1848.
Q90. German-Russian alliance against Poland, 1939.
Q93. Career of Louis XIV, 1638–1715.
Q94. Germans annex Czechoslovakia, overrun North Africa, 1939– 1941.
Q95. Allied landing in Calabria; Germans reinforce Italy; escape of Mussolini from prison, 1943–1944.
Q99. Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, 1812–1813.
Q100. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941.

Century X

Q1. Iran hostage crisis, 1980–1981.
Q2. Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588.
Q4. Escape and restoration of Charles II, 1651 and 1660.
Q7. Betrayal of Metz, 1870.
Q8. Baptism of Napoleon III by Pius IX, 1856.
Q12. Election and death of John Paul I, 1978.
Q16. Career of Louis XVIII, 1814–1824.
Q17. Imprisonment of Marie Antoinette; marriage of her daughter to the Duc d’Angouleme, 1793–1799.
Q18. Ascension of Henry Navarre to the French throne, 1595.
Q19. Ascension of Elizabeth I, 1559.
Q21. Shah and his son flee Iran; seizure of power by the Mullahs, 1979.
Q22. Abdication of Edward VIII, 1936.
Q23. Exile of Napoleon to Elba, 1814.
Q24. Napoleon’s escape from Elba, defeat at Waterloo, 1815.
Q26. Assassination of Robert Kennedy, 1968.
Q28. Mirabeau, Danton and Marat; the National Assembly; Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, 1789–1791.
Q34. Career of Joachim Murat, King of Naples, 1814–1815.
Q36. Naval warfare between Philip II and Elizabeth I, culminating in the Spanish Armada, 1585–1588.
Q38. Siege of Paris, Henry Navarre accepts Catholicism, 1590– 1595.
Q39. Career of Francis II, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Charles IX, 1590–1595.
Q40. Career of James I, Stuart Dynasty, 1603–1649.
Q42. Reign of the Georges in Britain, 1714–1952.
Q43. Career of Louis XVI, 1774–1793.
Q45. Career of Henry Navarre, Henry IV, 1589–1595.
Q48. Career of Franco; German and Italian involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939.
Q51. Lorraine lost to Prussia, 1870, returned to France, 1918.
Q52. Battle lines at the beginning and ending of World War I, 1914– 1918.
Q55. Catherine de Medici and Mary; death of Francis II, 1560.
Q58. Louis XIV enthroned, overwhelms Marseilles, concludes the Peace of the Pyrenees, 1659–1660.
Q62. Capture of Buda by the Duc de Lorraine, 1686; end of the Ottoman Empire, 1829.
Q64. (A) Consolidation of the Italian state, 1860–1870; (B) Fall of Fascism in Italy, 1944–1945.
Q71. Settlement of English colony at Plymouth, 1621.
Q84. Career of Elizabeth I, 1558–1603.
Q85. Rule of Marshall Petain, 1940–1943.
Q86. Allied forces opposing Napoleon, 1815.
Q90. Careers of Stalin, Krushchev and Brezhnev, 1956–1977.
Q93. Papal captivity at Valence, 1798–1799.
Q95. Philip II’s expedition in North Africa, leading to the Battle of Lepanto, 1571.
Q96. Fighting between Shiite and Sunni factions in the Middle East, 1980’s.
Q98. France during the German occupation, 1940–1941.
Q100. Portuguese loss of sea power; British empire for three hundred years, from Elizabeth I to Victoria, 1603–1901.
Q73, Add. Career of Voltaire, overall influence, 18th century.
Q100, Add. Louis XIV attains full royal power, 1660.

Century XII

Q36. Sack of Cyprus by the Turks, 1571.
Q52. Huguenot-Catholic civil war under de Guise and Conde, 1560– 1562.

Examining the sum total of research done over the last four centuries on interpreting Nostradamus’ prophecies demonstrates that, so far, approximately 455 of the prophet’s quatrains have seen some form of fulfillment. These particular verses have an interesting distribution in time and place—which can in turn give us clues as to the subject and scope of the verses yet to see their future completion.

There are about 80 verses describing the major events for the 1500’s, which is quite high, considering that they were written for only the last half of that century. Nostradamus, as well as his contemporary readers, would have had a particular interest in the outcome of localized events just beginning to unfold in their own day. The major theme appears to have been the extinction of the Valois royal line, and related events involving French internal political and religious affairs.

The number of poems for the next century beyond, the 1600’s, drops off to just above 50. It is a relatively “quiet” century for France, so it is no wonder that the prophet turned his focus to England. Here occurred the dramatic events surrounding the rise of Oliver Cromwell, the execution of Charles I, the restoration and eventual ouster of the remaining Stuart line, and the installation of the House of Orange. It was a crucial time also when England became an important sea power, setting the stage for its role in more global events in the next 300 years following, as the French seer foresaw.

For both the 1700’s and 1800’s, the numbers of quatrains fulfilled increase sharply, with nearly 100 for each century. However, the real attention-getter for Nostradamus, to which the prophet devoted most of these predictions, was concentrated in the explosive era of 1789 to 1815—the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror, the violent extinction of the Capet royal family, and the meteoric rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Empire.

This was also a time frame during which France now began to participate in a larger theater of operation, covering all of Europe and into Russia and Egypt.

The poems for the remainder of the 1800’s likewise take in not only the important transformations and personalities shaping nineteenth century France, but the seer’s foresights move into larger horizons, with the historic changes which took place in Italy, Germany, the Middle East and the Americas.

In particular, as Nostradamus next entered the 1900’s, both the number and scope of his prophecies expand significantly. Well over 150 of the verses of the verses dealt with just the first three-quarters of the twentieth century, especially with the events surrounding World War I, World War II and its aftermath. The seer now looked far beyond his native France, to peoples and places very distant from his home—yet who, because the globe was growing smaller and more compact, were nevertheless having greater influences on what happened to France as a member of the international community.

If we project these findings forward, for our own twenty-first century and beyond, what might we expect to discover? Going on what we have observed so far, the distribution suggests that:

1) The prophet will continue to concentrate the majority of his verses on specific “window” eras of crucial events and personalities that are to have the most impact on creating changes, and 2) the prophetic themes will be increasingly more global and universal, while still remaining from a French perspective.

Another significant point which needs to be made is that, out of the total of 969 quatrains having a prophetic theme covered in the Centuries, only a little less than half have reasonable fulfillments ascribed to them—the larger half is still open to future potential realization. This number is actually much larger, for—as interpreters have discovered in many instances—several of the so-called “fulfilled” prophecies have had more than one manifestation during the course of the passage of history, or as yet have been only partially fulfilled and await a more comprehensive completion.

And this does not include for the most part the Presages, Sixains, the prose prophecies of the Preface and Epistle, plus the unpublished New Articles and Prose Presages, all of which are most likely also designated as unfulfilled, and could constitute another 1,000 prophetic elements. If the number average so far holds true for the centuries ahead, then we can look forward to several more millennia of possible time span during which these forecasts may come true. As we shall see, recorded future history very probably will last that long, before a more timeless, universal consciousness for humanity comes into existence.

[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]