-
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
-
1598—Fidelus was first to practice forensic medicine in Italy
-
1670—Anton 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—Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen developed the science of spectroscopy.
-
1864—Crime scene photography developed
-
1879—Alphonse Bertillon developed a system to identify people using particular body measurements
-
1896—Edward Henry developed first classification system for fingerprint identification
-
1900—Karl 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—Jeffreys developed and used first DNA tests to be applied to a criminal case