In seven of his several hundred quatrains are years mentioned.

Look e.g. at the first hundred quatrains (with English translation) to see that there is no temporal order.

As for Nostradamus' predictive powers already one of his contemporaries made fun of him with this play of words:

Nostra damus cum falsa damus,
nam fallere nostrum est;
et cum falsa damus,
nil nisi nostra damus

Wolfgang