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Julius Caesar is assassinated. Physician performed an autopsy and determined the fatal wound out of the 23 different stab wounds.
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Fingerprints first used to determine identity. Arabic merchants would take a debtor's fingerprint and attach it to the bill.
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First forensic science manual published by the Chinese. First known record of medical knowledge being used to solve criminal cases.
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This was the first recorded instance of physical evidence matching, which led to a murder conviction. The evidence was a torn edge of paper in a pistol that matched the paper in the murder's pocket.
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An english chemist, James Marsh, used chemicals to determine arsenic as the cause of death in a murder trial.
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Juan Vauchitch, used fingerprints as evidence in a murder investigation. He also created a system of fingerprint identification.
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The first school of forensic science founded by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, in Switzerland.
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First police crime lab established in Los Angeles
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FBI established the National Crime Information Center. This was a computerized system that filed all information regarding wanted individuals.
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Tommy Lee Andrews is convicted of multiple sexual assaults, due to using DNA profiling.
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Japanese researchers develop a dental x-ray matching system. This system can automatically match dental x-rays in a database.
