IMPORTANT BATTLES IN INDIAN HISTORY

D.C.

327: Alexander the Great defeated Porus in the Battle of Hydaspes
261: Asoka captured Kalinga after a bloody battle near Bhubaneswar
155 : "Menander, a Greek king invaded north­ western India an~ became the Indo-Greek ruler till 130 Be.

Medieval India

A.D.

455: Huna's first invasion in India
533: Yasodharman defeats Mihirkula (a Huna invader)
712: Invasion of Sind under the command of Mohammed-bin-Qasim
1178: Bhim, the ruler of Anhilwara, defeats Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghuri
1191: first Battle of Tarain in which Prithviraj Chauhan defeated Muhammad Ghuri 1192: Second Battle of Tarain in which Muhammad Ghuri defeated Prithviraj Chauhan
1194: Battle of Chandawar in which Jaichand of Kannauj was defeated by Muhammad Ghuri
1202: Ikhtiyaruddin Bakhtiyar Khalji defeats the ruler of Bengal and Bihar
1526: First Battle of Panipat. Ibrahim Lodi was defeated by Babur
1527: Battle of Khanua. Rana Sanga was defeated by Babur
1529: Battle of Ghaghar. The Afghans were de­feated by Babur
1539: Battle of Chausa. Humayun was defeated by Sher Shah Suri I
1540: Battle of Kannauj or Bilgram. Humayun was defeated by Sher Shah Suri, who now became the ruler of Delhi
1556: Second Battle of Panipat. Hemu was de­feated by Akbar
1565: Battle of Talikota or Banihatti. Vijayanagar empire was defeated by the combined forces of five Muslim states.
1576: Battle of Haldighati. Rana Pratap was defeated by Akbar
1601: Battle of Asirgarh. Miran Bahadur Shah was defeated by Akbar
1615: Mewar submits to the Mughals. A treaty of peace was signed between Emperor Jahangir and Rana Amar Singh of Mewar
1649: Qandhar was lost to Persia by the Mughals
1659: Dara Shikoh killed by Aurangzeb
1665: Shivaji defeated by Raja Jai Singh and the Treaty of Purandhar is signed

Modern India

1707: Battle of Khod. Tara Bai defeated by Shahu
1724: Battle of Shakr-Kheda. Mubarak Khan defeated by Nizam-ul-Mulk
1737: Battle of Bhopal. The Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah defeated by Baji Rao
1739: Battle of Karnal. The Mughal army de­feated by Nadir Shah
1740: Battle of Gharia. Fought between Sarfaraz Khan, Nawab of Bengal, and Alivardi Khan, Deputy Governor of Bihar, in which Sarfaraz Khan was killed.
1746-48: First Carnatic War. Fought between French and British forces. Madras was captured by French but returned to the English by the Treaty of Aix-Ia-Chapelle. It is famous for the battle of St. Thome, in which a small French army defeated the Nawab's large force
1749-54: Second Carnatic War. Initially the French under Dupleix had some successes but at last the English got a hold
1758-63: Third Carnatic War. French captured Fort St. David in 1758, but suffered badly at Wandiwash (1760)
1757: Battle of Plassey. The English forces under Robert Clive defeated the army of Siraj-ud­daula
1761: Third battle of Panipat. Marathas were defeated by Ahmad Shah Abdali
1764: Battle of Buxar. The English under Munro defeated Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal, Shuja-ud-daula, Nawab of Avadh, and Shah Alam II, the Mughal emperor

1767-69: First Anglo-Mysore War. Contested between Haider Ali and the British
1760: Battle of Udgir. The Nizam was defeated by the Marathas
1775: Battle of Sindkhed between the Marathas and the Nizam. The Nizam was forced to
surrender some territories
1752-82: First Anglo-Maratha War. The British army was defeated. The humiliating Convention of Wadgoan (1779) was concluded. Peace was at last restored by the Treaty of Salbai
(1782)
1780-84: Second Anglo-Mysore War. Haider Ali died in the battle (1782) and the field was taken by his son TIpu Sultan. The war was concluded by the Treaty of Mangalore (1784)
1789-92: Third Anglo-Mysore War. TIpu Sultan was defeated (1792). The war came to a close with the Treaty of Seringapatam
1799: Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. Tipu died fight­ing 1803-06: Second Anglo-Maratha war. The Marathas were defeated by the British
1814-16: Nepalese War. Between the English and the Gurkhas. The war came to an end with the Treaty of Sagauli
1817-19: Third Anglo-Maratha war. The Marathas were badly defeated by the British
1824-26 : First Anglo-Burmese War. The British de­feated the Burmese. Peace was restored by the Treaty of Yandaboo
1839-42: First Anglo-Afghan War. The Afghan ruler Dost Muhammad was defeated by the
English
1845-46: First Anglo-Sikh War. The Sikhs were defeated by the English. The war was
ended by the Treaty of Lahore
1848-49 : Second Anglo-Sikh War. Sikhs were de­feated and Punjab was annexed by the
British
1852: Second Anglo-Burmese War. The English were success_ful
1865: Third Anglo-Burmese War. The English
annexed Burma
1878-80: Second Anglo-Afghan war. The English suffered losses
1919-21: Third Anglo-Afghan War. The English though victorious did not benefit from the war.