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Michael Nostradamus (1503-1566) was born in St Rémy in France, to a family of Jewish origin Catholics.
He was something of a child progedy, and by his early youth had become fluent in Greek, Latin and Mathematics, and was thus sent to Avignon to develop his studies further.

He trained for three years as a doctor and at 21 became a licensed wandering Physician. Becoming very successful in treating the plague. Much later in 1546 the town of Aix summoned him to help with the their severe plague problems, he was so successful in treating the people of Aix, that they granted him a pension.

During his wandering years he began to aquire knowledge of ancient techniques of prediction and other esoteric matters such as Astrology. From 1550 he started publishing Almanacs, and in 1555 he issued the first edition of the Centuries.

The Centuries
    Nostradamus made his fame from the predictions prophisised in the quatrains of The Centuries. Each Century was 100 verses of 4 lines, which were cryptic predictions of what the future held. The is no doubt whatsoever that all sorts of events can be fitted into many of them, and most of them are quite vague. You can always argue that the quatrain doesn't make any sense because the event has not yet happened, but some of them are right on the nail. A number of his prophesies were attributed to an event, and then many years later more accurately attributed to a much more important and significant event which fits the whole of the prediction in every detail.
    Many of the predictions include a date reference, which is astounding as he died sixteen years before the Gregorian Calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, and his predictions appear to have taken into account not only this, but also the fact that the Catholic countries of Europe would all immediately adopt the Gregorian calendar, and the Protestant Northern European countries, " The Goths " would continue with the inaccurate Julian Calendar.

Rather than go through hundreds of them, next I will reveal just a few of the most interesting predictions.

In 1940, the Spanish dictator, General Franco Denied Adolf Hitler entry to the Straits of Gibraltar and therefore the Gulf. While it is not certain who Ribere was, Nostrodamus came up with Franco's name, 400 years before the event. Castel is quite clearly Castille or Spain.

The bubonic plague swept london in 1665 and the great Fire of london followed in 1666. He even gave the date for the fire in the second line. This event happened a century after Nostradamus' death.
The ancient Dame was St. Paul's Cathedral, as It was his term for Church. It is estimated that about 80 other churches burned down in the great fire, just as predicted in the last line.

This verse is indicated previously as referring to 1991, and that was when Saddam Hussein entered Kuwait and the Gulf war started. Mesopotania is the ancient Greek name for Iraq, but the terrorising woman is less certain, could refer to Babylon, (often referred to as the biblical whore) or some woman who had something to do with Saddam himself.
The final line is a good description of the black clouds over Kuwait after Saddam set fire to the oil wells.

Context
    It's quite possible that a future event will come along which will match one of his predictions more closely than a previous solution did. Over the years there have been many experts who have spent large parts of their career studying the Nostrodamen texts to find contemporary predictions, only to be later made to look foolish when a much more likely event happens.
 

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