The Medieval Chronology of Malacca is from a paper presented by academician Charles Otto Blagden in 1897 at the International Congress of Orientalists that was held in Paris in 1896, and published in 1897. Drawing from Chinese, Portuguese and Malay sources, Blagden (a former District Officer of Malacca and 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. Included is a short biography of the author and an introduction written by Dennis De Witt.