Forensic project - Timeline

Britain's Forensic Science System developed an online footwear coding and detection system.

The first recorded use of fingerprints to solve a crime.

The FBI was established along with the first police crime laboratory.

The first documented use of physical matching.

The first treatise on systematic document examination was published.

Scientists first started dissecting animals and humans to search for causes of disease.

The first use of fingerprints was used to establish identity.

Germans were the first ti write statures that required medical experts to determine the cause of death.

The Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity.

A court case in Rome showed bloody palm prints were used to frame a blind man of his mother's murder.

The first forensic book was published and the first forensic autopsies were done at the University of Bologna.