| Battle of Hydaspes, 326 B.C. | Alexander the Great defeated Porus, the Paurava king. Impressed by the valour of Porus, ultimately Alexander returned his kingdom to him |
| Battle of Kalinga, 261 B.C. | Ashoka defeated the king of Kalinga. Ashoka embraced Buddhism and preached it during the rest of his life after this war. |
| First Battle of Waihind,1001 -1002 A.D | Mahmud Ghazni defeated Jayapala |
| Second Battle of Waihind, 1008 A.D. | Mahmud Ghazni defeated the Hindu Confederacy under Anandpala. |
| First Battle of Tarain or Thaneswar,1191 A.D. | Prithvi Raj Chauhan, ruler of Ajmer defeated Mohammed Ghori. |
| Second Battle of Tarain,1192 A.D. | Mohammed Ghori defeated Prithvi Raj Chauhan. Ghori’s victory paved the way for the establishment of Muslim rule in India. |
| Battle of Chandawara, 1194 A.D | Mohammed Ghori defeated Jaichand,ruler of Kannauj. |
| First Battle of Panipat,1526 A.D. | Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodhi. This laid the foundation of the Mughal rule in India. |
| Battle of Khanwah, 1527 A.D | Babar defeated Rana Sanga of Mewar. This battle resulted in the defeat of the powerful Rajput confederacy. |
| Battle of Ghaghra, 1529 A.D | Babur defeated the Afghan under Mahmood Lodhi |
| Battle of Chausa, 1539 A.D | Sher Shah defeated Humayun |
| Second Battle of Panipat, 1556 A.D. | Bairam Khan (Akbar’s General) defeated Hemu. It also ended the Afghan Rule and Mughal Rule began instead. |
| Battle of Talikota/ Bannihatti,1565 A.D. | United alliance between Bijapur, Bidar, Ahmednagar and Golkonda under Hussain Nizam Shah defeated Ram Raja of Vijayanagar. Itdestroyed the Hindu Kingdom of Vijayanagar. |
| Battle of Haldighat, 1576 A.D. | Akbar defeated Rana Pratap |
| Battle of Dharmat, 1658 A.D | Aurangzeb defeated Raja Jaswant Singh |
| Battle of Plassey, 1757 A.D | The English under Lord Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah.It brought Muslim Rule in Bengal to an end and laid foundations of the British Rule in India. |
| Battle of Wandiwash, 1760 A.D. | The English defeated the French. |
| Third Battle of Panipat, 1761 A.D. | Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated Marathas. This war paved path for Britishers. |
| Battle of Buxar, 1764 A.D. | Fought in 1764 between the forces of the English and the combined forces of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daulah (Nawab of Oudh) and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam. The English victory at Buxar finally riveted the shackles of the Company’s rule upon Bengal. |
| First Anglo – Mysore War,1767- 68 A.D. | In 1768, Hyder Ali was defeated by the English withdrawing all his rights over Mysore. |
| Second Anglo – Mysore War 1780-84 A.D. | The war took place between Kingdom of Mysore and British East India Company. Hyder Ali defeated the English and took possession of Arcot and became the undisputed master of the Carnatic. |
| Third Anglo – Mysore War 1790 – 92 A.D. | Fought between the English and Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan had to sign the Treaty of Seringapattam consequently, half of his kingdom was stripped off |
| Fourth Anglo – Mysore War, 1799 A.D. | The British forces under Arthur Wellesley defeated Tipu Sultan. Seringapatam was taken by storm and Tipu Sultan was killed. |
| Battle of Chillianwala,1849 A.D. | The East India Company under Lord Hugh Gough defeated the Sikhs under Sher Singh Attariwalla. |
Anglo-Burmese War, 1824—1886 A.D
| Whole of Burma was occupied by the English and made a part of India. |
Afghan War, 1839- 1919 A.D
| Treaty of Rawalpindi was signed by which Afghanistan was recognized as an independent State. |
| lndo-Pak War, 1965 A.D | This was Pakistan’s second attack on India and was also known as Second Kashmir War. While India had the upper hand, the fighting was brought to a stop by a call for ceasefire issued by the Security Council. It ended in a United Nations mandated ceasefire and the subsequent issuance of the Tashkent Declaration. |
| lndo- Pak War Dec 1971 A.D. | India defeated Pakistan on all fronts. Pakistani occupation forces, numbering about one lakh, in East Bengal (Bangladesh) surrendered. Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation. |
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