Siarra Binion - Timeline

The classification of fingerprints as we know today were first used in china, to establish identity of documents and sculptures

Erasistratus and Herophilus perform the first autopsies in Alexandria

physician to Roman gladiators, dissects both animal and humans to search for the causes of disease.

Roman attorney Quintilian shows that a bloody handprint was intended to frame a blind man for his mother’s murder.

First forensic autopsies are done at the University of Bologna.

Sung Tz’u publishes Hsi Yuan Lu (The Washing Away of Wrongs), the first forensic text.

De Officia Coronatoris, which describes the coroner’s duties, is published in England.

edical schools are established in Padua and Bologna.

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First pathology reports published

First recorded instance of physical matching of evidence leading to a murder conviction (John Toms, England). Evidence was torn edge of newspaper in a pistol the matched newspaper in his pocket.

German chemist Valentin Ross developed a method of detecting arsenic in a victims stomach, thus advancing the investigation of poison deaths

James Marsh, an English chemist, uses chemical processes to determinate arsenic as the cause of death in a murder trial.

Prototype polygraph, which was invented by John Larson in 1921, developed for use in police stations

Tommy Lee Andrews convicted of a series of sexual assaults, using DNA profiling

Britain's Forensic Science Service develops online footwear coding and detection system. This helps police to identify footwear marks quickly.

Michigan state university develops software that automatically matches hand-drawn facial sketches to mug shots stored in databases.

University of Leipzig offers the first courses in forensic medicine