As mentioned in earlier article, Nostradamus is perhaps the most famous secular prophet of all time. He wrote 942 separate predictions which showed a lot of accuracies.

Some examples are:
Prophecy No 1:

His prediction on the GREAT FIRE OF LONDON OF 1666

“The blood of the just will be spilled at London/Burned by the fire of twenty three the sixes/The ancient lady will topple from a high place/Many of the same sect will be killed”

Prophecy No.2:
“The young lion will overcome the old/On the field of battle in single combat/He will put out his eyes in a golden cage/Two wounds one, then to die a cruel death.

- Nostradamus was actually referring to 1559 where the French king Henry II took part in a tournament staged to celebrate two royal weddings. His young opponent’s lance accidentally penetrated the monarh’s visor -the”golden cage” of the prophecy-piercing him behing the eye. The King died in great pain a week later.

Prophecy No.3:

“The fortress near the Thames will fall/When the king is locked inside/He will be seen in his shirt near the bridge/One facing death, then locked inside the fort

- Nostradamus was accurately predicted the execution of Charles I of England famously beheaded in his shirt-sleeves.

Prophecy No 4:

Nostradamus predicted the French Revolution:

“He who will come to the throne on the death of the great monarch/Willlead an illicit and sensual life/Through insouciance he will make concessions to everyone/So that finally the Salic law will be needed”- this verse applies neatly to the heir to the Sun King Louis XIV, Louis XV whose pleasure-loving and indecisive reign paved the way for the French Revolution

Prophecy No 5:

Nostradamus predicted the birth and decline of the British Empire. It reads:

“The great empire will be[created] by England/Omnipotent for more than 300 years/Great forces moving by land and sea/The Portuguese will not be happy.-Written at a time when England had no colonies and when Portuguese mariners had a clear lead in overseas exploration.The time span also fits well - the first successfuly British colonies were established in the early seventeeth century and most of those that remained were granted independence in the mid-twentieth century.

Prophecy No 6:

Nostradamus also predicted the RULE OF NAPOLEON.

” An Emperor will be born near Italy/Who will cost the Empire dear./People willsay when they see his supporters/That he has turned out not so much a prince as butcher.”

Prophecy No 7:

The END OF NAPOLEON’S CAREER is also predicted - ” The great empire will soon be transformed/Into a small place that will soon start to grow/A tiny place in a minute county/In the midst of which he will come to lay down his sceptre”

- pertaining to Napoleon’s exile, first to the island of Elba and then to St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean

Prophecy No.8:

” The kingdom taken the king will conspire/The lady taken to death sworn by lot:/Life to Queen soon will be denied/And the mistress at the fortress of the wife”

- pertaining to the French Revolution whereby after his fall, King Louis XVI was charged with conspiracy, and that the jurors who condemned his wife to death were, unusually chosen by lot. Taken captive, the queen’s soon, the Dauphin, disappeared, presumed dead. The final line is referring to Madame du Barry, mistress of the king’s father Louis XV who also lost her life.

Prophecy No.9:

“He will make his entrance, wicked, bad, ill-famed/Tyrannizing over Mesopotamia/All friends made of an adulterous spirit/The land horrible, black of aspect”

-Nostradamus prophecy sometimes interpreted as predicting SADDAM HUSSEIN’s role in the Gulf War.

(Source: Tony Allan in his book on Prophecies)