According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

John Adams served as an American envoy to France from 1778 until 1779 and to the Netherlands from 1780 until 1782, and the younger Adams accompanied his father on these journeys.

Under American advice ( by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policy makers in USA were absorbed in coincident Cuban Missile Crisis ) Nehru refrained, not according to the best choices available, from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.

In Burma, a royal library called the Pitaka Taik was legendarily founded by King Anawrahta ; in the 18th century, British envoy Michael Symes, upon visiting this library, wrote that " it is not improbable that his Birman majesty may possess a more numerous library than any potentate, from the banks of the Danube to the borders of China ".

The essays, excerpts of which appear in the ' Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong ', warn against the behaviour of the blindfolded man trying to catch sparrows, and the ' Imperial envoy ' descending from his carriage to ' spout opinions '.

On May 4, 1927, representatives from the two warring factions signed the Espino Negro accord, negotiated by Henry Stimson, appointed by U. S. President Calvin Coolidge as a special envoy to Nicaragua.

Nuncio is an ecclesiastical diplomatic title, derived from the ancient Latin word, Nuntius, meaning " envoy.

As a result, he sent Count Sicco, an imperial envoy of Otto II from Spoleto, to demand the pope ’ s release.

In 1993, Musharraf personally assisted Benazir Bhutto to have a secret meeting in a Pakistan Embassy at the Washington, D. C. with officials from Mossad and special envoy of Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin.

In February 1555 an envoy was dispatched from the English parliament to Julius to inform him of the country's formal submission, but the pope died before the envoy reached Rome.

The legates unfortunately allowed themselves to be deceived, or bribed, and brought back a synodical letter from Patriarch Peter of Constantinople ( 656 – 666 ), while the emperor's envoy, who accompanied them, brought offerings for St. Peter and a request from the emperor that the pope would enter into communion with the Patriarch of Constantinople.

An envoy from another nation is traditionally treated as a guest, their communications with their home nation treated as confidential, and their freedom from coercion and subjugation by the host nation treated as essential.

* July 16 – July 24 – An envoy from Massachusetts attempts to negotiate with the Nipmuck tribe.

Manuel answers that he is willing to receive the French army and to support it, but he complains about receiving the letter from an envoy of the King of France and not from an ambassador sent by the Pope.

The next day, a special envoy from Charles, Lord Arlington, met with William in Nieuwerbrug.

Following Bildt's appointment as EU's special envoy to Yugoslavia, Tom Warrick from the Coalition for International Justice described Bildt as " dangerously misinformed about his own job description " and largely ignorant about the region.

According to records from Japanese documents, Mao Changxi ( 毛昶熙 ) and Dong Xun ( 董恂 ), the Qing ministers at Zongli Yamen ( 總理衙門 ) who handled the complaints from Japanese envoy Yanagihara Sakimitsu ( 柳原前光 ) replied first that they had heard only of a massacre of Ryūkyūans, not of Japanese, and quickly noted that Ryūkyū was under Chinese suzerainty, therefore this issue was not Japan's business.

At the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders ' summit, the ROC President is forbidden from attending personally and must send a special envoy to represent him at the event.

When Eastern Wu and Shu Han re-established their alliance against Cao Wei, Deng Zhi was sent by Zhuge Liang as envoy, and one of his mission was to ask the release and the return of Zhang Yi.

Under his staff members ' suggestion, Sun sent troops to catch Deng's departing envoy, but Zhang Yi had already realized what Sun would do after observing his attitude on the banquet, and thus he and Deng Zhi quickly left Eastern Wu by speeding up their journey, and made back to Shu Han just one day ahead of Sun Quan's troops sent after them.

* Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts ' in ( the Roman Empire ), although he never reached there

The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi ( who later became known as Kushans ), who had conquered Bactria by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian ( circa 127 BC ), who had been sent by the Han emperor to investigate lands to the west of China.

* Emperor Wu of Han sends an envoy into Bactria, Parthia and Ferghana.

Zhang Qian ( traditional Chinese 張騫 ; simplified Chinese 张骞 ; Wade-Giles Chang Ch ' ien, pronounced " Jang Chyen ") was an imperial envoy to the world outside of China in the 2nd century BCE, during the time of the Han Dynasty.

:" When the Han envoy first visited the kingdom of Anxi, the king of Anxi ( the Arsacid ruler ) dispatched a party of 20, 000 horsemen to meet them on the eastern border of the kingdom ...

The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi ( who later became known as Kushans ), who had conquered Bactria by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian ( circa 127 BCE ), who had been sent by the Han emperor to investigate lands to the west of China.

In the 7th year of his regime, the Yu tribe sent an envoy to Xia, while in the 8th year of his regime, Han Zhuo killed Houyi with his son Jiao.

Then he sent an envoy to offer tribute to Han.

On one particular event, on the eleventh lunar month of 87 CE, "... an envoy from Parthia offered as tribute a lion and an ostrich " to the Han court.

An Imperial decree then ordered that the seal and ribbons of “ Protector General ” be recovered, and replaced with the seal and ribbon of “ Great Han General .” Xian ’ s envoy refused to make the exchange, and ( Pei ) Zun took them by force.

In 77 BCE, the Chinese envoy Fu Jiezi was sent to kill the Loulan king, named Chang Gui or An Gui ( 嘗歸 or 安歸 ), after several Han envoys were killed or kidnapped.

In 77 BCE, according to the History of the Former Han Dynasty, the Chinese envoy Fu Jiezi assassinated Loulan's king, Chang Gui.

In 77 BCE, the Chinese envoy Fu Jiezi was sent to kill the Loulan king after several Han envoys were killed or kidnapped.

There is a Chinese tradition that in 2 BCE, a Yuezhi envoy to the court of Emperor Ai of Han transmitted one or more Buddhist sutras to a Chinese scholar.

In 196 BC, an envoy from the Han Empire gave Zhao Tuo a seal recognizing him as king of Nanyue.

* The Silk Road is established after the diplomatic travels of the Han Dynasty Chinese envoy Zhang Qian to Central Asia, with Chinese goods making their way to India, Persia, and the Roman Empire, and vice versa.

Ban Chao also sent an envoy named Gan Ying to Daqin ( Rome ).

He was named envoy of the town of Frankfort at the court of France in 1759, but was deprived of his office for criticizing the comte de Broglie in a dispatch intercepted by Louis XV.

Another envoy, named Tutus, was sent to carry the decree of this double excommunication to Acacius in person.

Also the Seljuk Sultan was keen for peace to be restored as soon as possible ; he sent an envoy named Gabras, together with gifts of a Nisaean warhorse and a sword, to Manuel in order to negotiate a truce.

After a successful career as a papal envoy, he was made a theologian by Pope Nicholas V in 1448 or 1449, and was named Bishop of Brixen in 1450.

Eizenstat was later named special envoy of the US government for Holocaust issues.

He was named minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinaire to the United States 31 July 1815 in the aftermath of the War of 1812.

In March 1621, three months after the founding of Plymouth, an Abenaki named Samoset entered the town and exclaimed in English — which he had learned from the Penobscot fishermen and from the English fishermen that came to fish off Monhegan Island — “ Welcome, Englishmen !” He announced himself as the envoy of Massasoit, “ the greatest commander of the country .” After some negotiation, Massasoit came in person and was received with due ceremony.

In 1905, in addition to his duties as a diocesan bishop, O ' Connell was named papal envoy to Emperor Meiji of Japan ; he was also decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure.

The death of a Roman envoy named Coruncanius on the orders of Teuta and the attack on trading vessels owned by Italian merchants under Rome's protection, prompted the Roman senate to dispatch a Roman army under the command of the consuls Lucius Postumius Albinus and Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus.

Bremer and Blackwill would come to work together again thirty years later when Bremer was President George W. Bush's top envoy to Iraq and Blackwill was named to the National Security Council staff in August 2003 to coordinate between Washington and Baghdad.

In line with all the Sinn Féin MPs elected at that election he did not represent his constituents at Westminster, but withdrew to sit in the declared independent Dáil Éireann ( the First Dáil ) and was named by Éamon de Valera as special envoy to the United States, a role his uncle Jack had played 25 years previously.

In the summer of 1993 President Bill Clinton named Ross Middle East envoy.

In July 1835, hundreds of Cherokee, not from just the Treaty Party but also from the National Party ( including John Ross ), converged on John Ridge ’ s plantation named Running Waters ( near Calhoun, Georgia ) to meet with John F. Schermerhorn ( President Jackson's envoy on the matter of a removal treaty with the Cherokee Nation East ), Return J. Meigs, Jr. ( Commissioner for Indian Affairs ), and other officials representing the United States government.

The envoy was named Force 138 and the operation was called " Operation Crofter ".

In 97 AD, a Chinese envoy named Gan Ying, sent by the general Ban Chao, made his way from the Tarim Basin to Parthia and reached the Persian Gulf.

As a result of the dispute and threats, Haqq ad-Din ibn Muhammad ibn ' Ali, governor of the Muslim province of Ifat, seized and imprisoned a member of the envoy sent by the Emperor named Ti ` yintay on his way back from Cairo.

On the 9th November 2010 she was named as a ' global trade envoy for Britain ' by the British Government.

He acted as a voluntary envoy of the Ministry within the frame of the judicial case launched in New York City in 1987 and brought to conclusion in 1993, at the same time as he was named consultant in the larger framework of the Turkey's participation in the work carried out by UNIDROIT regarding the protection of historic, cultural and religious heritage.