The Medieval Chronology of Malacca is from an academic paper presented by Charles Otto Blagden at the International Congress of Orientalists that was held in Paris in 1896. Drawing from Chinese, Portuguese and Malay sources, Blagden, a former District Officer of Malacca, Dean of the School of Oriental and African Studies and a Reader in Malay at the University of London, provides a compelling argument on when Malacca was first established as the Kingdom of the Malacca Malay Sultanate.