Organ/tissue transplants?

Question

I am looking for the date, or period in which tissue transplant was first discovered and introduced. Some sort of time line of biotechnology would be great, with a verifiable source. This is for an assignment (not the whole thing, just a small detail), however I've looked for it myself somewhat unsuccessfully, and am hoping someone else might know more than me :) Thank you.

Answer 1

There are some documentation stating that the first reasonable account of doing a tissue transplant was done in the second century B.C. by an Indian surgeon Sushruta who used autografted skin transplantation in nose reconstruction rhinoplasty. No further details was mentioned on such transplantation though.

More details can be found in this wiki page. You may check out its list of sources and external links down the article page for verification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_transplant#History