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This timeline is about Forensic Science.

Created by Nushy on Nov 17, 2009

Last updated: 11/18/09 at 12:10 PM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Nov 17, 2009 1:32 PM

• A Chinese Book
  Jul 8, 1248 12:00 PM

  A Chinese book, Hsi Duan Yu (the washing away of wrongs), contains a description of how to distinguish drowning from strangulation. This was the first recorded application of medical knowledge to the solution of crime.

• Quintilian
  Jul 7, 1000 12:00 PM

  Quintilian, an attorney in the Roman courts, showed that bloody palm prints were meant to frame a blind man of his mother's murder.

• Chinese Used Fingerprints
  Jul 5, 700 AD 12:00 PM

  Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculpture, but without any formal classification system.

• Start Of Forensic Science
  Jul 4, 600 AD 12:00 PM

  Fingerprints were found in early paintings and in rock carvings of prehistoric humans.