General Awareness : Important battles fought and its outcome

326 B.C. - Battle of Hydaspas - Porus loses to Alexander


261 B.C. - Kalinga War - Asoka wins but adapts Buddhism


712 A.D. - Invasion of Sind - Mohammed-bin-Qasim invades from the west


1191 A.D. - First Battle of Tarain - Prithviraj Chauhan defeats Mohammed Ghori


1192 A.D. - Second Battle of Tarain - Ghori defeats Prithviraj Chauhan


1194 A.D. - Battle of Chhandwar - Ghori defeats Jaichandra of Kannauj


1526 A.D. - First Battle of Panipat - Babar defeats Ibrahim Lodhi


1527 A.D. - Battle of Khanua - Babar defeats Rana Sanga


1529 A.D. - Battle of Ghaghara - Babar defeats the Afghans


1539 A.D. - Battle of Chausa - Sher Shah Suri defeats Humayun


1540 A.D. - Battle of Kannauj (or Bilgram) - Sher Shah Suri defeats Humayun


1556 A.D. - Second Battle of Panipat - Bairam Khan (representing Akbar) defeats Hemu


1565 A.D. - Battle of Talikota (or Banihatti) - Vijaynagar empire (represented by Sadasiva) loses against an alliance formed by Ahmednagar, Bijapur, Golkonda and Bidar


1576 A.D. - Battle of Haldighati - Akbar defeats Maharana Pratap


1615 A.D. - Mewar submitted to the Mughals - Peace treaty signed between Jahangiri and Rana Amar Singh of Mewar.


1649 A.D. - Mughal-Safavid War - Mughals lose Kandahar to Persia


1658 A.D. - Battle of Dharmatt and Samugarh -Aurangzeb defeats Dara Shikoh


1665 A.D. - Seige of Purandar - Raja Jai Singh defeats Shivaji. Treaty of Purandar signed


1708 A.D. - Battle of Khed - Shahu defeats Tara Bai.


1737 A.D. - Battle of Bhopal - Baji Rao defeats Mohammed Shah.


1739 A.D. - Battle of Karnal - Nadir Shah defeats Mohammed Shah.


1757 A.D. - Battle of Plassey - Robert Cive defeats Siraj-ud-daula, the Nawab of Bengal


1760 A.D. - Battle of Wandiwash - English defeat the French


1761 A.D. - Third Battle of Panipat - Ahmed Shah Abdali defeats Marathas


1764 A.D. - Battle of Buxar - Hector Munro defeats combined armies of Nawab Mir Qasim of Bengal, Nawab Shuja-ud-daula of Awadh and Mughal emperor Shah Alam


1767-69 A.D. - First Anglo Mysore War - Hyder Ali defeats English forces


1766-69 A.D. - First Anglo Maratha War - British defeated


1770 A.D. - Battle of Udgir - Marathas defeat the Nizam


1780-84 A.D. - Second Anglo Mysore War - Hyder Ali dies. Treaty of Mangalore is signed


1789-92 A.D. - Third Anglo Mysore War - Tipu Sultan defeated. Treaty of Serirangapatnam is signed.


1799 A.D. - Fourth Anglo Mysore War - Tipu Sultan is defeated and killed


1803-06 A.D. - Second Anglo Maratha War - Marathas lose to the British


1817-19 A.D. - Third Anglo Maratha War - Marathas lose to the British again


1824-26 A.D. - First Anglo Burmese War - British win over Burmese.


1839-42 A.D. - First Anglo Afghan War - British defeat Afghan ruler Dost Mohammad


1845-46 A.D. - First Anglo Sikh War - Sikhs lose to the British


1848-49 A.D. - Second Anglo Sikh War - Punjab annexed by the British


1852 A.D. - Second Anglo Burmese War - British win the war


1865 A.D. - Third Angio Burmese War - British win and Burma is annexed


1868-80 A.D. - Second Anglo Afghan War - Treaty of Gandamak is signed


1919-21 A.D. - Third Anglo Afghan War - Ended in an Artimice. Durand line established.