Important Battles Indian History
BC
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327-26
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Alexander invades
India. Defeats Porus in the Battle of Hydaspes (Jhelum) 326 BC
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305
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Chandragupta Maurya
defeats the Greek King Seleucus.
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216
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The Kalinga War.
Conquest of Kalinga by Ashoka.
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c. 155
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Menander's invasion
of India
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c. 90
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The Saka invade
India
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AD
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454
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The first Huna
invasion
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495
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The second Huna
invasion
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711-712
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The Arab invasion of
Sind under Mohammed-bin-Qasim
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1000-27
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Mahmud Ghazni
invades India 17 times
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1175-1206
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Invasions of
Muhammad Ghori. First Battle of Tarain.
1191 - Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeats Muhammad Ghori; Second Battle of Tarain, 1192 - Muhammad Ghori defeats Prithvi Chauhan; Battle of Chandawar, 1194 - Muhammad Ghori defeats Jayachandra Gahadvala of Kanauj. |
1294
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Alauddin Khilji
invades the Yadava kingdom of Devagiri. The first Turkish invasion of the
Deccan.
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1398
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Timur invades India.
Defeats the Tughlaq Sultan Mahmud Shah; the Sack of Delhi
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1526
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Babur invades India
and defeats the last Lodi Sultan Ibrahim Lohi in the first Battle of Panipat.
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1539-40
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Battles of Chusa or
Ghaghra (1539) and Kanauj or Ganges (1540) in which Sher Shah defeats
Humayun.
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1545
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Battle (siege) of
kalinjar and death of Sher Shah Suri.
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1556
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Second Battle of
Panipat. Akbar defeats Hemu.
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1565
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Battle of
Rakatakshasi-Tangadi (Talikota) in which the forces of the empire of
Vijanagar under King Sadasiva Raya and his regent Rama Raya are routed by the
confederate forces of the Deccani states of Bijapur, Golkonda, Ahmadnagar,
and Bidar.
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1576
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Battle of
Haldighati, Akbar defeats Rana Pratap of Mewar.
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1632-33
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Conquest of
Ahmadnagar by Shah Jahan.
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1658
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Battles of Dharmat
(April-May 1658) and Samugarh (June 8, 1658). Dara Shikoh, elest son of Shah
Jahan, defeated by Aurangzeb.
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1665
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Shivaji defeated by
Raja Jai Singh and Treaty of Purandhar.
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1739
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Invasion of India by
Nadir Shah.
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1746
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First Carnatic War.
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1748-54
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Second Carnatic War.
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1756-63
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Third Carnatic War.
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1757
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Battle of Plassey.
Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, defeated by Clive.
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1760
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Battle of Wandiwash,
in which the English under Sir Eyre Coote defeated the French under Lally.
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1762
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Third Battle of
Panipat. Marathas defeated by Ahmad Shah Abdali.
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1764
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Battle of Buxar. The
English (under Munro) defeated Mir Kasim, the Nawab of Bengal and Nawab
Shuja-ud-daulah of Awadh.
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1767-69
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First Mysore War.
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1774
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The Rohilla War
between the Rohillas and the Nawab of Awadh supported by the East India
Company.
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1775-82
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First Maratha War
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1780-82
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Maratha War
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1780-84
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Second Mysore War
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1792
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Third Mysore War
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1799
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Fourth Mysore War,
Defeat and death of Tipu Sultan
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1802-04
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Second Maratha War
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1817-18
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Third Maratha War
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1845-46
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first Sikh War
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1846
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Battle of Aliwal
between the English and the Sikhs. The Sikhs were defeated.
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1848-49
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Second Sikh war and
annexation of the Punjab to British India.
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1857
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The Revolt of 1857
(The First War of Indian Independence)
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