<Dt> 1583 - 1591 </Dt> <Dd> The English merchant Ralph Fitch, together with John Newberry and John Eldred, a jeweller named William Leedes and a painter, James Story, traveled via the Levant and Mesopotamia to India and Portuguese Malacca (in modern Malaysia). Eldred stayed in Basra, Iraq; Story joined the Jesuits in Goa; Leedes stayed in Agra to work for Akbar and Newberry decided to begin his return journey . Fitch went by himself to Burma and Malacca (today in Malaysia). He returned to London in 1591 . </Dd> <Dl> <Dt> 1497 - 1499 </Dt> <Dd> The Portuguese Vasco da Gama, accompanied by Nicolau Coelho and Bartolomeu Dias, is the first European to reach India by an all - sea route from Europe . </Dd> </Dl> <Dt> 1497 - 1499 </Dt>

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