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Chinese used finger prints to establish identity of documents with clay sculptures but there wasn't a formal classification system.
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Erasistratus and Herophilus pioneered the anatomical by dissecting cadavers to study how organs and nerves worked
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First forensic science manual published by the Chinese. This was the first known record of medical knowledge being used to solve criminal cases.
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Florentine physician carried out 15 autopsies to determine cause of death
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Andreas Vesalius used autopsies to distinguished abnormal anatomy in humans
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Coroner's act established that coroners' were to determine the causes of sudden, violent, and unnatural deaths. Arthur Conan Doyle also publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story.
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American physician Richard Cabot studies 1000 autopsies and finds out that 40% of the bodies that a incorrect cause of death
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First police crime lab established in Los Angeles.
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Toxicology tests are effective after a pathologist in Ohio detects cyanide after a autopsy of a patent John Powell
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An FBI DNA database, NIDIS, enabling interstate cooperation in linking crimes, was put into practice.
