Important Battles of Indian History
- 327-326 B.C. – Alexander invades India. Defeats Porus in the Battle of Hydaspes (Jhelum)
- 326 B.C. 305 B.C. – Chandragupta Maurya defeats the Greek king Seleucus.
- 216 B.C. – The Kalinga War. Conquest of Kalinga by Ashoka.
- 155 B.C. – Menander’s invasion of India. 90 B.C. – The Sakas invade India.
- 454 – The first Huna invasion.
- 495 – The second Huna invasion.
- 711-712 – The Arab invasion of Sind under Mohammed-binQasim.
- 1000-1027 – Mahmud Ghazni invades India 17 times.
- 1175 - 1206- Invasions of Muhammad Ghori.
- 1191- First Battle of Tarain, Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeats Muhammad Ghori. 1192- Second Battle of Tarain, Muhammad Ghori defeats Prithviraj Chauhan;
- 1194 - Battle of Chandawar, Muhammad Ghori defeats Jayachandra Gahadvala of Kannauj.
- 1294 – Alauddin Khalji invades the Yadava kingdom of Devagiri. The first Turkish invasion of the Deccan.
- 1398 – Taimur invades India. Defeats the Tughlaq Sultan Mahmud Shah; the Sack of Delhi.
- 1526 – Babur invades India and defeats the last Lodi Sultan Ibrahim Lodi in the First Battle of Panipat.
- 1539-1540
- 1539 - Battle of Chausa or Ghaghra
- 1540 - Battle of Kanauj or Ganges in which Sher Shah defeats Humayun.
- 1545 - Battle (siege) of Kalinjar and death of Sher Shah Suri.
- 1556 – Second Battle of Panipat. Akbar defeats Hemu.
- 1565 – Battle of RaktakshasiTangadi (Talikota) in which the forces of the empire of Vijayanagar under King Sadasiva Raya and his regent Rama Raya routed by the confederate forces of the Deccani states of Bijapur, Golkunda, Ahmadnagar, and Bidar.
- 1576 – Battle of Haldighati. Akbar defeats Rana Pratap of Mewar.
- 1632-1633 - Conquest of Ahmadnagar by Shah Jahan.
- 1658 – Battles of Dharmat (April-May 1658) and Samugarh (June 8, 1658). Dara Shikoh, eldest son of Shah Jahan, defeated by Aurangzeb.
- 1665 – Shivaji defeated by Raja Jai Singh and Treaty of Purandhar.
- 1739 – Invasion on India by Nadir Shah. 1746 – First Carnatic War.
- 1748-1754 – Second Carnatic War.
- 1756 -1763 – Third Carnatic War.
- 1757 – Battle of Plassey. Siraj-uddaulah, the Nawab of Bengal, defeated by Clive.
- 1760 – Battle of Wandiwash, in which the English under Sir Eyre Coote defeat the French under Lally.
- 1762 – Third Battle of Panipat. Marathas defeated by Ahmad Shah Abdali.
- 1764 – Battle of Buxar. The English (under Munro) defeat Mir Kasim, the Nawab of Bengal and Nawab Shuja-ud-daulah of Awadh.
- 1767-1769 – First Mysore War.
- 1774 – The Rohilla War between the Rohillas and the Nawab of Awadh supported by the East India Company.
- 1775 - 1782 – First Maratha War.
- 1780 - 1784 – Second Mysore War.
- 1792 – Third Mysore War.
- 1799 – Fourth Mysore War. Defeat and death of Tipu Sultan.
- 1802 - 1804 – Second Maratha War. 1817 - 1818 – Third Maratha War.
- 1845 - 1846 – First Sikh War.
- 1846 – Battle of Aliwal between the English and the Sikhs. The Sikhs defeated.
- 1848 - 1849 – Second Sikh War and annexation of the Punjab to British India. 1857 – The Revolt of 1857 (The First War of Indian Independence).
