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Important Battles in Indian History

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IMPORTANT BATTLES IN INDIAN HISTORY IN BC (BEFORE CHRIST) ....................................................................... 3

IMPORTANT BATTLES IN INDIAN HISTORY IN CE (COMMON ERA) ........................................................................ 3

IMPORTANT BATTLES IN INDIAN HISTORY IN MODERN TIMES ............................................................................... 5

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Important Battles in Indian History in BC (Before Christ)

Year Important Events

• Alexander invades India.
327-326 BC
• Defeats Porus in the Battle of Hydaspes (Jhelum).

• Chandragupta Maurya conquest of Nanda Empire.

321-320 BC
• Establishment of Mauryan Empire

• Chandragupta Maurya defeats the Greek King Se-

303 BC leucus.

262 BC • The Kalinga War. Conquest of Kalinga by Ashoka.

90 BC • The Sakas invade India.

Important Battles in Indian History in CE (Common Era)

Year Important Events

454 CE • The first Huna invasion

495 CE • The second Huna invasion

• Battle of Pullalur

618 CE • Chalukya king Pulakesin II defeats

Pallava king Mahendravarman I

• Battle of Manimangala
640 CE
• Pallavas defeat the Chalukyas

• The Arab invasion of Sind under

711-712 CE Mohammed-bin-Qasim

1000-1027 CE • Mahmud Ghazni invades India 17 times.

• First Battle of Tarain.

1175-1206 CE
• Invasions of Muhammad Ghori

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• Second Battle of Tarain.

1191 CE
• Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeats Muhammad Ghori

• Battle of Chandawar.
1192 CE
• Muhammad Ghori defeats Prithvi Chauhan

• Muhammad Ghori defeats Jayachandra Gahadvala

1194 CE of Kanauj.

• The first Turkish invasion of the Deccan.

1294 CE • Alauddin Khilji invades the Yadava kingdom

of Devagiri

• Timur invades India.

1398 CE
• Defeats the Tughlaq Sultan Mahmud Shah of Delhi.

• Babur invades India and defeats the last Lodi Sul-

1526 CE tan
Ibrahim Lodhi in the First Battle of Panipat.

• Battles of Chusa or Ghaghra (1539) and

1539-1540 CE Kanauj or Ganges (1540) in which
Sher Shah defeats Humayun.

• Battle (siege) of Kalinjar and death of Sher Shah

1545 CE Suri.

• Second Battle of Panipat.

1556 CE
• Akbar defeats Hemu.

• Battle of Talikota in which the empire of Vijayna-

gar
under King Sadasiva Raya and his regent Rama
Raya
1565 CE are routed by the confederate forces of the Dec-
can
states of Bijapur, Golkonda, Ahmadnagar, and Bi-
dar.

• Battle of Haldighati
1576 CE
• Akbar defeats Rana Pratap of Mewar.

1632-1633 CE • Conquest of Ahmadnagar by Shah Jahan.

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• Battles of Dharmat (April-May 1658) and

Samugarh (June 8, 1658).
1658 CE
• Dara Shikoh, eldest son of Shah Jahan,
defeated by Aurangzeb.

• Shivaji defeated by Raja Jai Singh

1665 CE
• Treaty of Purandhar.

Important Battles in Indian History in Modern Times

Year Important Events

• Battle of Karnal
1739 CE
• Invasion of India by Nadir Shah.

1746 CE • First Carnatic War.

1748-1754 CE • Second Carnatic War.

1756-1763 CE • Third Carnatic War.

• Battle of Plassey.

1757 CE • Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal,

defeated by Robert Clive

• Battle of Wandiwash

1760 CE • The English under Sir Eyre Coote defeated

The French under Lally.

• Third Battle of Panipat.

1762 CE
• Marathas defeated by Ahmad Shah Abdali.

• Battle of Buxar.
• The English (under Munro) defeated Mir
1764 CE Kasim,
the Nawab of Bengal and Nawab Shuja-ud-
daulah of Awadh.

1767-1769 CE • First Mysore War.

1774 CE • The Rohilla War

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• Between the Rohillas and the Nawab of

Awadh
supported by the East India Company.

1775-1782 CE • First Maratha War.

1780-1784 CE • Second Mysore War.

1792 CE • Third Mysore War.

• Fourth Mysore War,

1799 CE
• Defeat and death of Tipu Sultan.

1802-1804 CE • Second Maratha War

1817-1818 CE • Third Maratha War

1845-1846 CE • First Sikh War

• Battle of Aliwal

1846 CE • Between the English and the Sikhs.

• The Sikhs were defeated.

• Second Sikh war and

1848-1849 CE
• Annexation of the Punjab to British India.

• The Revolt of 1857

1857 CE (The First War of Indian Independence)