Hisory TImeline By prasit Sep 13, 700 Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures Sep 13, 1000 Roman courts determined that bloody palm prints were used to frame a man in his brother’s murder Sep 13, 1149 King Richard of England introduced the idea of the coroner to investigate questionable death Sep 13, 1200 A murder in China is solved when flies were attracted to invisible blood residue on a sword of a man in the community Sep 13, 1598 1598—Fidelus was first to practice forensic medicine in Italy Sep 13, 1670 1670—Anton Van Leeuwenhoek constructed the first high-powered microscope Sep 13, 1776 1776—Paul Revere identified the body of General Joseph Warren based on the false teeth he had made for him Sep 13, 1784 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 Sep 13, 1859 1859—Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen developed the science of spectroscopy. Sep 13, 1864 1864—Crime scene photography developed Sep 13, 1879 1879—Alphonse Bertillon developed a system to identify people using particular body measurements Sep 13, 1896 1896—Edward Henry developed first classification system for fingerprint identification Sep 13, 1900 1900—Karl Landsteiner identified human blood groups Sep 13, 1904 1904—Edmond Locard formulated his famous principle, “Every contact leaves a trace.” Sep 13, 1922 1922—Francis Aston developed the mass spectrometer. Sep 13, 1959 1959—James Watson and Francis Crick discover the DNA double helix Sep 13, 1977 1977—AFIS developed by FBI, fully automated in 1996 Sep 13, 1984 1984—Jeffreys developed and used first DNA tests to be applied to a criminal case