Falls (19th century)

19th CENTURY FALLS:

WESTON Fell 14th December, 1807 @ 0630 hrs Connecticut, USA TKW 150kg Sample: 0.2g

H4 ordinary chondrite

USA 1807

Slavery is abolished across the British Empire.  Heinrich Olbers discovers the asteroid Vesta, from where the HED class of meteorites originate.

STANNERN Fell 22nd May, 1808 @ 0600 hrs Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic TKW 52kg Sample: micro

Monomict eucrite achondrite

Czech R 1808

Wellington defeats the French at Battle of Vimiero.

CHANTONNAY Fell 5th August, 1812 @ 0200 hrs Vendée, France TKW 31.5kg Sample: micro

L6 ordinary chondrite

France 1812

Charles Dickens is born in Plymouth. Start of the 1812 war between US and UK. Napoleon invades Russia, eventually being defeated at Vyazma.

LUOTOLAX Fell 13th December, 1813 @ 1000 hrs Viborg, Finland TKW 885g Sample: micro

Howardite achondrite

Finland 1813

Publication of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Birth of Verdi.

AGEN Fell 5th September, 1814 @ 1200 hrs Lot-et-Garonne, France TKW 30kg Sample: 0.59g

H5 ordinary chondrite

France 1814

Sir Walter Scott writes Waverley.  Death of the Marquis de Sade.

CHASSIGNY Fell 3rd October, 1815 @ 0800 hrs Haute Marne, France TKW ~4kg Sample: micro

Martian (chassignite)

France 1815

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JUVINAS Fell 15th June, 1821 @ 1500 hrs Ardeche, France TKW 91kg Sample: 0.8g

Monomict eucrite achondrite

France 1821

US takes possession of Florida from Spain.  Birth of Baudelaire, Dostoevsky; death of Keats.

PAVLOGRAD Fell 19th May, 1826 Dnepropetrovsk Region, Ukraine TKW 40kg Sample: 1.85g

L6 ordinary chondrite

Ukraine 1826

The Menai Suspension bridge is opened.  Foundation of University College London. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.

DRAKE CREEK Fell 9th May, 1827 @ 1600 hrs Tennessee, USA TKW 5kg Sample: 0.025g

L6 ordinary chondrite

USA 1827

Death of Ludwig van Beehoven.  The striking match is invented by John Walker.

COLD BOKKEVELD Fell 13th October, 1838 @ 0900 hrs Cape Province, South Africa TKW 5.2kg Sample: micro

CM2 carbonaceous chondrite

South Africa 1838

Friedrich Bessel makes first accurate stellar distance measurement by parallax method.  Berzelius discovers proteins.  Birth of Ferdinand von Zeppelin, founder of Zeppelin Airship company.

MILENA Fell 26th April, 1842 @ 1500 hrs Varaždin, Croatia TKW 10kg Sample: 0.16g

L6 chondrite

Croatia 1842

Dr Crawford Long performs the first operation using anaesthesia.

BAREA Fell 4th July,1842 Navarra, Spain TKW 3200g Sample: 0.29g

Mesosiderite

Spain 1842

(as above)

BISHOPVILLE Fell 25 March, 1843 South Carolina, USA TKW 6kg Sample: 0.1g

Aubrite achondrite

USA 1843

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is published.  First commercial Christmas cards printed in London.

KESEN Fell 13th June, 1850 @ 0500 hrs Honshu, Japan TKW 135kg Sample: 0.4g

H4 ordinary chondrite

Japan 1850

Fugitive Slave Law passed by US Congress.  Foundation of the University of Sydney.  Death of Mme Tussaud.

SHALKA Fell 30th November 1850 West Bengal, India TKW 4kg Sample: micro

Monomict diogenite

India 1850

(as above)

TRENZANO Fell 12th November, 1856 @ 1600 hrs Lombardy, Italy TKW 11.8kg Sample: micro

H3/4 ordinary chondrite

Italy 1856

Institution of the Victoria Cross. Gregor Mendel begins his research into heredity.  Remains of early hominids found in the Neander Valley, Germany.

DHURMSALA Fell 14th July, 1860 @ 1415 hrs Himachal Pradesh, India TKW 32kg Sample: 0.48g

LL6 ordinary chondrite

India 1860

Foundation of Vladivostok. Robert Bunsen discovers Caesium and Rubidium.  Birth of J M Barrie, Scottish author ofPeter Pan.

TOURINNES-LA-GROSSE Fell 7th December, 1863 @ 1130 hrs Tirlemont, Belgium TKW 14.5kg Sample: micro

L6 ordinary chondrite

Belgium 1863

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NERFT Fell 12th April, 1864 @ 0445 hrs Courland, Latvia TKW 10.25kg Sample: micro

L6 ordinary chondrite

Latvia 1864

James Clark Maxwell discovers microwaves.  First publication of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. First fish-and-chip shop opens in London.  Alfred Nobel’s younger brother Emil is killed in a nitro-glycerine explosion.

ORGUEIL Fell 14th May, 1864 @ 2000 hrs Tarn-et-Garonne, France TKW 14kg Sample: micro

CI1 carbonaceous chondrite

France 1864

(as above)

DANIEL’S KUIL Fell 20th March, 1868 Cape Province, South Africa TKW 1064g Sample: micro

EL6 chondrite

South Africa 1868

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SLAVETIC Fell 22nd May, 1868 @ 10hrs Zagreb, Croatia TKW 1708g Sample: 0.42g

H5 chondrite

Croatia 1868

HESSLE Fell 1st January, 1869 @ 1230 hrs Svealand, Sweden TKW 20kg Sample: micro

H5 ordinary chondrite

Sweden 1869

American Museum of Natural History founded in New York.  Mary Ward killed by a steam car, making her (probably) the first ever victim of a road traffic accident.  The clipper Cutty Sark is launched from Dumbarton, Scotland.

IBBENBÜREN Fell 17th June 1870 @ 1400 hrs Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany TKW ~2000g Sample: micro

Achondrite diogenite

Germany 1870

Last public hanging takes place in Britain. First Trades Union Congress is held in Manchester, England. Discovery of Helium.  Thomas Edison applies for his first patent – an electric vote recorder.

BANDONG Fell 10th December, 1871 @ 1330 hrs West Java, Indonesia TKW 11.5kg Sample: 0.79g

LL6 ordinary chondrite

Indonesia 1871

LANCÉ Fell 23rd July 1872 @ 1720 hrs Loir-et-Cher, France TKW 51.7kg Sample: micro

CO3.5 carbonaceous chondrite

France 1872

Yellowstone established as first US National Park.  The Mary Celeste is found drifitng and unmanned near the Straits of Gibraltar.  First ever international football match takes place in Glasgow; final score is Scotland 0 – 0 England.

HOMESTEAD Fell 12th February, 1875 @ 2215 hrs Iowa, USA TKW 230kg Sample: 1.58g

L5 ordinary chondrite

USA 1875

First recorded swimming of the English Channel.  Birth of Carl Jung, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Aleister Crowley.  Death of Hans Christian Anderson.

STÄLLDALEN Fell 28th June, 1876 @ 1132 hrs Svealand, Sweden TKW 34kg Sample: 0.3g

H5 ordinary chondrite

Sweden 1876

Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call.  Nikolaus Otto invents the 4-stroke internal combustion engine.

SOKO-BANJA Fell 13th October, 1877 @ 1400 hrs Aleksinac, Serbia TKW 80kg Sample: 0.38g

LL4 ordinary chondrite

Serbia 1877

Emile Berliner invents the microphone. Edison demonstrates the phonograph.  First test cricket match takes place between England and Australia – Australia win by 45 runs.  The Boat Race is declared a dead heat.

TIESCHITZ Fell 15th July, 1878 @ 1345 hrs Jihomoravsky ,Czech Republic TKW 28kg Sample: 0.04g

H/L3.6 ordinary chondrite

Czech Rep 1878

Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call.  Nikolaus Otto invents the 4-stroke internal combustion engine.

TENHAM Fell Spring 1879 Queensland, Australia TKW 160kg Sample: 8.8g

L6 ordinary chondrite

Australia 1879

Anglo-Zulu War, including battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift.  Foundation of the US Geological Survey. Edison tests first practical light bulb using a carbonsied thread filament.  Tay Bridge Disaster claims 75 lives.

MOCS Fell 3rd February, 1882 @ 1600 hrs Transylvania, Romania TKW 300kg Sample: 0.13g

L5-6 ordinary chondrite

Romania 1882

Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. Nikola Tesla invents the AC generator/motor.  Death of Charles Darwin.

ALFIANELLO Fell 16th February, 1883 @ 1500 hrs Lombardy, Italy TKW 228kg Sample: 1.4g

L6 chondrite

Italy 1883

Eruption of Krakatoa leaves 40,000 dead.  Franz Kafka is born.

DJATI-PENGILON Fell 19th March, 1884 @ 1630 hrs East Java, Indonesia TKW 166kg Sample: 1.9g

H6 ordinary chondrite

Indonesia 1884

Colchester Earthquake, the UK’s worst recorded and estimated at magnitude 4.7 damages hundreds of buildings.  Timi?oara, Romania becomes the first town in Europe to use electric street lighting.  Mark Twain writes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

ASSISI Fell 24th May, 1886 @ 0700 hrs Umbria, Italy TKW 2kg Sample: micro

H5 ordinary chondrite

Italy 1886

Dedication of the Statue of Liberty.  Karl Benz patents the petrol-driven motor car.

OCHANSK Fell 30th August, 1887 @ 1300 hrs Perm, Russia TKW 500kg Sample: 2.1g

H4 ordinary chondrite

Russia 1887

Publication of the results of the Michelson-Morley consigns the aether to history, proves speed of light is independent of motion. Emile Berliner patents the gramophone.

JELICA Fell 1st December, 1889 @ 1430 hrs Serbia TKW 34kg Sample: 0.76g

LL6 ordinary chondrite

Serbia 1889

Herman Hollerith patents his electric tabulating machine, used for the 1890 US Census. Eiffel Tower opens. First issue of the Wall Street Journal published. Opening of the Moulin Rouge.

BJURBÖLE Fell 12 March, 1899 @ 2230 hrs Nyaland, Finland TKW 330kg Sample: 0.3g

L/LL4 ordinary chondrite

Finland 1899

Felix Hoffman patents aspirin. Johan Vaaler patents the paper clip.