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Group: Armenia, Baronry of Little, or Lesser
People: Charles III of Navarre
Topic: Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45
Location: Trieste (Triest) Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy

The English adventurer Robert Shirley, concluding a …

Years: 1615 - 1615

The English adventurer Robert Shirley, concluding a long diplomatic mission to Europe on behalf of the Shah, returns to Persia by sea, through the Cape of Good Hope to land in India, at the mouth of the Indus, escaping from an attempt to his life by the Portuguese.

He finally arrives at Isfahan with his Circassian wife Teresia in 1615.

All his traveling companions have however died on the way in a poisoning conspiracy.