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Jan 1, 700
700s AD
Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures -
Jan 1, 1000
1000
Roman courts determined that bloody palm prints were used to frame a man in his brother’s murder -
Jan 1, 1149
1149
King Richard of England introduced the idea of the coroner to investigate questionable death -
Jan 1, 1200
1200
A murder in China is solved when flies were attracted to invisible blood residue on a sword of a man in the community -
1598
Fidelus was first to practice forensic medicine in Italy -
1670
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.htmlAnton Van Leeuwenhoek constructed the first high-powered microscope -
1776
Paul Revere identified the body of General Joseph Warren based on the false teeth he had made for him -
1784
John Toms convicted of murder on basis of torn edge of wad of paper in pistol matching a piece of paper in his pocket -
1859
http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/chemistry-in-history/themes/the-path-to-the-periodic-table/bunsen-and-kirchhoff.aspxGustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen developed the science of spectroscopy. -
1864
Crime scene photography developed -
1879
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/biographies/bertillon.htmlAlphonse Bertillon developed a system to identify people using particular body measurements -
1896
Edward Henry developed first classification system for fingerprint identification -
1900
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1930/landsteiner-bio.htmlKarl Landsteiner identified human blood groups -
1904
Edmond Locard formulated his famous principle, “Every contact leaves a trace.” -
1922
Francis Aston developed the mass spectrometer. -
1959
James Watson and Francis Crick discover the DNA double helix -
1977
AFIS developed by FBI, fully automated in 1996 -
1984
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/jeffreys.htmlJeffreys developed and used first DNA tests to be applied to a criminal case
