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