English

Verb

fall upon

1. to fall on; to experience; to suffer.

   With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.‎

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

2. to fall on; to occur at some particular point in time.
   • 1925, Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor, chapter 1, in Romance of the Three Kingdoms:

     It fell upon the day of full moon of the fourth month, the second year, in the era of Established Calm (AD 168), that Emperor Ling went in state to the Hall of Virtue.