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ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY
- 1865
15 April: Drs. Woodward and Curtis performed the autopsy upon the body of Abraham Lincoln.
Immediately after the removal of the body, Hermann Faber sketched the deathbed scene.
29 April: Autopsy upon the body of John Wilkes Booth performed by Museum's pathologists.
1 November: Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes issued Circular No. 6, describing Woodward's work in photomicrography.
- 1866
22 December: Museum settled in Ford's Theater building, its fourth home.
- 1867
25 April: First visiting rules issued for the Museum.
- 1881
23 February: Dr. Otis died; succeeded by Maj. David Low Huntington as Curator.
19 September: President James A. Garfield died; autopsy performed by Dr. D. S. Lamb, Museum pathologist, with Dr. Woodward as recorder.
- 1882
30 June: Dr. Lamb performed autopsy of Guiteau, the assassin.
- 1883
28 December: Museum and Library consolidated into one division. Maj. John Shaw Billings named Curator of Museum as well as Librarian.
- 1884
11 October: Billings started microscope collection; first 17 arrived in Museum.
- 1885
25 March: Site for new building (fifth home) selected.
- 1887
9 November: Museum moved into "new red brick," its fifth home.
- 1892
12 April: Congress recognized scientific status of Museum.
- 1893
24 June: Army Medical School established in Museum building by Surgeon General George Miller Sternberg.
