"The World's First Typewritten Document" - James Chadwick
(Circa 2,000 BCE –
1,700 BCE)
Crimes / Forgeries / Hoaxes Timeline Outline
8,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE
The Nebra Sky Disk
(1,600 BCE)
1100 – 1200
1300 – 1400
The Use of Manuscript Rolls in the Middle Ages
(Circa 1304 –
1340)
1400 – 1450
Uncrackable Code or Great Written Hoax?
(Circa 1404 –
1438)
Medieval Mappa Mundi, Stolen during an Auction
(1411 –
1419)
1500 – 1550
1600 – 1650
1650 – 1700
1750 – 1800
The Chess-Playing Turk
(1769)
Invention of Steel Engraving
(Circa 1792 –
1819)
1800 – 1850
Poe Writes Maelzel's Chess Player
(April 1836)
The First Commercial Electric Telegraph
(July 25, 1837 –
January 1, 1845)
News of the World Begins Publication
(October 1, 1843)
1875 – 1900
Fingerprints as a System of Identification
(October 8, 1880)
Imaginary Historical Biographies
(1887 –
1889)
1930 – 1940
The Full Extent of the Holocaust
(September 1939 –
April 1945)
1940 – 1950
The Hinman Collator
(1945 –
1949)
1970 – 1980
1980 – 1990
Australia Issues the First Polymer Banknote ($10)
(January 1988)
The First Computer Worm to Attract Wide Attention
(November 2, 1988)
1990 – 2000
First Recorded Use of the Term, Phishing
(January 2, 1996)
2000 – 2005
The First U.S. Standards for Sending Commercial E-Mail
(December 16, 2003)
Image Manipulation in Scientific Publications
(July 6, 2004)
2005 – 2010
"Computer Criminal Number One"
(August 5, 2008)
The Amazon Kindle is Hacked; eBook Digital Rights Management Cracked
(December 23, 2009)
2010 – 2011
The Most Successful Art Forger Ever
(May 12 –
August 22, 2010)
The Website of MasterCard is Hacked by Wikileaks Supporters
(December 8, 2010)
2011 – 2013
Leading British Tabloid Closed Because of Cell Phone Hacking Scandal
(July 7 –
July 17, 2011)
