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19th CENTURY FALLS:
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WESTON
Fell 14th December, 1807 @ 0630 hrs
Connecticut, USA
TKW 150kg
Sample: 0.2g |
H4
ordinary chondrite |
USA
1807
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Slavery is abolished
across the British Empire. Heinrich Olbers discovers the
asteroid Vesta, from where the HED class of meteorites originate.
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STANNERN
Fell 22nd May, 1808 @ 0600 hrs
Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic
TKW 52kg
Sample: micro |
Monomict
eucrite achondrite |
Czech R
1808
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Wellington defeats the
French at Battle of Vimiero.
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CHANTONNAY
Fell 5th August, 1812 @ 0200 hrs
Vendée, France
TKW 31.5kg
Sample: micro |
L6 ordinary chondrite |
France
1812
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Charles Dickens is born in Plymouth. Start of the 1812
war between US and UK. Napoleon invades Russia, eventually being
defeated at Vyazma.
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LUOTOLAX
Fell 13th December, 1813 @ 1000 hrs
Viborg, Finland
TKW 885g
Sample: micro |
Howardite achondrite |
Finland
1813
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Publication of Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Birth of Verdi.
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AGEN
Fell 5th September, 1814 @ 1200 hrs
Lot-et-Garonne, France
TKW 30kg
Sample: 0.59g |
H5
ordinary chondrite |
France
1814
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Sir Walter Scott
writes Waverley.
Death of the Marquis de Sade.
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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
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US takes possession of
Florida from Spain. Birth of Baudelaire, Dostoevsky; death of
Keats.
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PAVLOGRAD
Fell 19th May, 1826
Dnepropetrovsk Region, Ukraine
TKW 40kg
Sample: 1.85g |
L6
ordinary chondrite |
Ukraine
1826
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The Menai Suspension bridge is opened. Foundation of
University College London. Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion
engine.
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DRAKE CREEK
Fell 9th May, 1827 @ 1600 hrs
Tennessee, USA
TKW 5kg
Sample: 0.025g |
L6
ordinary chondrite |
USA
1827
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Death of Ludwig van Beehoven. The striking match is invented by John Walker.
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COLD BOKKEVELD
Fell 13th October, 1838 @ 0900 hrs
Cape Province, South Africa
TKW 5.2kg
Sample: micro |
CM2
carbonaceous chondrite |
South Africa
1838
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Friedrich Bessel makes first accurate stellar distance
measurement by parallax method. Berzelius discovers proteins. Birth
of Ferdinand von Zeppelin, founder of Zeppelin Airship company.
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MILENA
Fell 26th April, 1842 @ 1500 hrs
Varaždin, Croatia
TKW 10kg
Sample: 0.16g |
L6 chondrite |
Croatia
1842
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Dr Crawford Long performs the first operation using anaesthesia.
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BAREA
Fell 4th July,1842
Navarra, Spain
TKW 3200g
Sample: 0.29g |
Mesosiderite |
Spain
1842
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(as above)
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BISHOPVILLE
Fell 25 March, 1843
South Carolina, USA
TKW 6kg
Sample: 0.1g |
Aubrite
achondrite |
USA
1843
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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is published. First commercial Christmas cards printed in London.
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KESEN
Fell 13th June, 1850 @ 0500 hrs
Honshu, Japan
TKW 135kg
Sample: 0.4g |
H4
ordinary chondrite |
Japan
1850
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Fugitive Slave Law passed by US Congress. Foundation of the University of Sydney. Death of Mme Tussaud.
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SHALKA
Fell 30th November 1850
West Bengal, India
TKW 4kg
Sample: micro |
Monomict diogenite |
India
1850
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(as above)
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TRENZANO
Fell 12th November, 1856 @ 1600 hrs
Lombardy, Italy
TKW 11.8kg
Sample: micro |
H3/4 ordinary chondrite |
Italy
1856
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Institution of the Victoria Cross. Gregor Mendel begins his
research into heredity. Remains of early hominids found in the
Neander Valley, Germany.
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DHURMSALA
Fell 14th July, 1860 @ 1415 hrs
Himachal Pradesh, India
TKW 32kg
Sample: 0.48g |
LL6
ordinary chondrite |
India
1860
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Foundation of Vladivostok. Robert Bunsen discovers Caesium and Rubidium. Birth of J M Barrie, Scottish author of Peter Pan.
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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
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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.
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ORGUEIL
Fell 14th May, 1864 @ 2000 hrs
Tarn-et-Garonne, France
TKW 14kg
Sample: micro |
CI1 carbonaceous chondrite |
France
1864
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(as above)
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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
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HESSLE
Fell 1st January, 1869 @ 1230 hrs
Svealand, Sweden
TKW 20kg
Sample: micro |
H5
ordinary chondrite |
Sweden
1869
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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.
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IBBENBÜREN
Fell 17th June 1870 @ 1400 hrs
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
TKW ~2000g
Sample: micro |
Achondrite diogenite |
Germany
1870
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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.
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BANDONG
Fell 10th December, 1871 @ 1330 hrs
West Java, Indonesia
TKW 11.5kg
Sample: 0.79g |
LL6 ordinary chondrite |
Indonesia
1871
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LANCÉ
Fell 23rd July 1872 @ 1720 hrs
Loir-et-Cher, France
TKW 51.7kg
Sample: micro |
CO3.5
carbonaceous chondrite |
France
1872
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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.
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HOMESTEAD
Fell 12th February, 1875 @ 2215 hrs
Iowa, USA
TKW 230kg
Sample: 1.58g |
L5
ordinary chondrite |
USA
1875
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First recorded swimming of the English Channel. Birth of
Carl Jung, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Aleister Crowley. Death of Hans
Christian Anderson.
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STÄLLDALEN
Fell 28th June, 1876 @ 1132 hrs
Svealand, Sweden
TKW 34kg
Sample: 0.3g |
H5
ordinary chondrite |
Sweden
1876
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Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call. Nikolaus Otto invents the 4-stroke internal combustion engine.
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SOKO-BANJA
Fell 13th October, 1877 @ 1400 hrs
Aleksinac, Serbia
TKW 80kg
Sample: 0.38g |
LL4 ordinary chondrite |
Serbia
1877
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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.
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TIESCHITZ
Fell 15th July, 1878 @ 1345 hrs
Jihomoravsky ,Czech Republic
TKW 28kg
Sample: 0.04g |
H/L3.6 ordinary chondrite |
Czech Rep
1878
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Alexander Graham Bell makes first telephone call. Nikolaus Otto invents the 4-stroke internal combustion engine.
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TENHAM
Fell Spring 1879
Queensland, Australia
TKW 160kg
Sample: 8.8g |
L6
ordinary chondrite |
Australia
1879
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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.
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MOCS
Fell 3rd February, 1882 @ 1600 hrs
Transylvania, Romania
TKW 300kg
Sample: 0.13g |
L5-6
ordinary chondrite |
Romania
1882
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Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible
for tuberculosis. Nikola Tesla invents the AC generator/motor.
Death of Charles Darwin.
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ALFIANELLO
Fell 16th February, 1883 @ 1500 hrs
Lombardy, Italy
TKW 228kg
Sample: 1.4g |
L6
chondrite |
Italy
1883
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Eruption of Krakatoa leaves 40,000 dead. Franz Kafka is born.
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DJATI-PENGILON
Fell 19th March, 1884 @ 1630 hrs
East Java, Indonesia
TKW 166kg
Sample: 1.9g |
H6
ordinary chondrite |
Indonesia
1884
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Colchester Earthquake, the UK's worst recorded and estimated at
magnitude 4.7 damages hundreds of buildings. Timişoara, Romania
becomes the first town in Europe to use electric street lighting.
Mark Twain writes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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ASSISI
Fell 24th May, 1886 @ 0700 hrs
Umbria, Italy
TKW 2kg
Sample: micro |
H5
ordinary chondrite |
Italy
1886
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Dedication of the Statue of Liberty. Karl Benz patents the petrol-driven motor car.
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OCHANSK
Fell 30th August, 1887 @ 1300 hrs
Perm, Russia
TKW 500kg
Sample: 2.1g |
H4
ordinary chondrite |
Russia
1887
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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.
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JELICA
Fell 1st December, 1889 @ 1430 hrs
Serbia
TKW 34kg
Sample: 0.76g |
LL6 ordinary chondrite |
Serbia
1889
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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.
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BJURBÖLE
Fell 12 March, 1899 @ 2230 hrs
Nyaland, Finland
TKW 330kg
Sample: 0.3g |
L/LL4 ordinary chondrite |
Finland
1899
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Felix Hoffman patents aspirin. Johan Vaaler patents the paper clip.
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