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Julius Caesar was assassinated
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Medical experts must be the ones to determine the cause of death in crimes
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The use of fingerprints weer used for the first time to identify others
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First forensic science manual published by the Chinese.
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King Richard invented the idea of using coroner to investigate questionable deaths.
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First pathology reports published
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Evidence was a torn edge of newspaper in a pistol that matched newspaper in his pocket which led to a murder conviction
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Valentin Ross developed a method of detecting arsenic in a victim's stomach, thus advancing the investigation of poison deaths.
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Clothing and shoes of a farm laborer were examined and found to match evidence of a nearby murder scene.
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James Marsh uses chemical processes to determine arsenic as the cause of death in a murder trial.
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The first city in the US to use photos for criminal identification was San francisco
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Henry Faulds and William James Herschel publish a paper describing the uniqueness of fingerprints
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Coroner's act established that coroners' were to determine the causes of sudden, violent, and unnatural deaths
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Juan Vucetich, an Argentinean police officer, is the first to use fingerprints as evidence in a murder investigation.
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Human blood grouping, ABO, discovered by Karl Landsteiner and adapted for use on bloodstains by Dieter Max Richter.
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First school of forensic science founded by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, in Switzerland.
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Victor Balthazard and Marcelle Lambert publish first study on hair, including microscopic studies from most animals.
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Victor balthazard bullets have markings from individual guns
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First police crime lab established in Los Angeles.
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FBI establishes its own crime laboratory, now one of the foremost crime labs in the world
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Prototype polygraph, which was invented by John Larson in 1921, developed for use in police stations.
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Voiceprints began to be used in investigations and as court evidence from recordings of phones, answering machines, or tape recorders.
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FBI established the National Crime Information Center, a computerized national filing system on wanted people, stolen vehicles, weapons, etc.
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First fingerprint reader installed at the FBI
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DNA fingerprinting techniques developed by Sir Alec Jeffreys.
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Scientist used DNA to catch a criminal, Tommy Lee Andrews
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National Academy of Sciences announces DNA evidence is reliable.
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FBI makes automated fingerprint inquiry responses heaps faster
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Technology speeds up DNA profiling time
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Britain's Forensic Science Service develops online footwear coding and detection system. This helps with identifying footwear marks
