⚔ Wars & battles
Every battle and conquest on YugMap: who fought, where and what it led to. Click a dot or a name for the full story.
Larger dots are major battles. ♻ marks a battlefield fought over more than once.
16th century CE · 18
1509
Battle of Diu
Battle · Diu · Portuguese Estado da Índia
→ Portuguese naval supremacy in the Arabian Sea was established.
1510
Portuguese capture Goa
Conquest / annexation · Goa · Portuguese Estado da Índia
→ Goa became the capital of the Portuguese Estado da Índia until 1961.
1520
Krishnadevaraya takes Raichur
Battle · Raichur · Tuluva Dynasty
→ Vijayanagara won the Raichur doab from Bijapur.
1526
First Battle of Panipat ♻
Battle · Panipat · Mughal Empire
→ Ibrahim Lodi was killed and Babur founded the Mughal Empire.
1527
Battle of Khanwa
Battle · Khanwa · Mughal Empire
→ Babur defeated Rana Sanga's Rajput confederacy, securing Mughal rule in the north.
1529
Battle of the Ghaghra ♻
Battle · Ghaghra river · Mughal Empire
→ Babur defeated the Afghan chiefs of the east.
1535
Humayun takes Mandu and Champaner
Conquest / annexation · Champaner · Mughal Empire
1539
Battle of Chausa ♻
Battle · Chausa · Sur Empire
→ Humayun was defeated and escaped by swimming the Ganga.
1540
Battle of Kannauj ♻
Battle · Kannauj · Sur Empire
→ Humayun fled into exile and Sher Shah founded the Sur Empire.
1555
Humayun recovers Delhi (Battle of Sirhind)
Battle · Sirhind · Mughal Empire
→ Humayun regained his throne from the Surs.
1556
Second Battle of Panipat ♻
Battle · Panipat · Mughal Empire
→ Hemu was captured and killed, securing Akbar's throne.
1558
Portuguese occupy Malé
Conquest / annexation · Malé · Portuguese Malé
1565
Battle of Talikota
Battle · Talikota · Tuluva Dynasty
→ Vijayanagara's army was routed and its capital Hampi was sacked.
1568
Akbar takes Chittorgarh ♻
Battle · Chittorgarh · Mughal Empire
→ Chittor fell and Rana Udai Singh moved his capital to Udaipur.
1573
Akbar conquers Gujarat
Conquest / annexation · Ahmedabad · Mughal Empire
1576
Battle of Haldighati
Battle · Haldighati · Mewar (Sisodia)
→ The Mughals held the field but Maharana Pratap escaped to continue resisting.
1576
Battle of Rajmahal: Mughals take Bengal
Battle · Rajmahal · Mughal Empire
→ Daud Khan Karrani was killed and Bengal became a Mughal province.
1586
Mughals annex Kashmir ♻
Conquest / annexation · Srinagar · Mughal Empire
17th century CE · 8
1601
Asirgarh falls to Akbar
Conquest / annexation · Asirgarh · Mughal Empire
1612
Battle of Swally ♻
Battle · Suvali near Surat · British East India Company
→ The English defeated the Portuguese and won trading rights at Surat.
1656
Dutch take Colombo from the Portuguese ♻
Conquest / annexation · Colombo · Dutch Ceylon
→ Portuguese rule in Sri Lanka ended by 1658.
1659
Shivaji kills Afzal Khan at Pratapgad
Battle · Pratapgad
→ Bijapur's army was routed and Shivaji's power grew.
1664
Shivaji sacks Surat ♻
Battle · Surat
1671
Battle of Saraighat
Battle · Saraighat, Guwahati · Ahom Kingdom
→ The Ahoms defeated the Mughals, keeping Assam independent.
1686
Mughals annex Bijapur
Conquest / annexation · Bijapur · Mughal Empire
→ The Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur ended.
1687
Mughals annex Golconda
Conquest / annexation · Golconda · Mughal Empire
→ The Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda ended.
18th century CE · 19
1724
Battle of Shakar Kheda: Hyderabad State founded
Battle · Shakar Kheda · Hyderabad State (Nizams)
→ Nizam-ul-Mulk defeated the Mughal governor and founded Hyderabad State.
1737
Baji Rao raids Delhi ♻
Battle · Delhi · Maratha Empire
1739
Nadir Shah sacks Delhi ♻
Battle · Karnal / Delhi · Mughal Empire
→ Delhi was plundered and the Peacock Throne and Koh-i-Noor taken to Persia.
1741
Battle of Colachel
Battle · Colachel · Travancore
→ Travancore defeated the Dutch, ending Dutch ambitions in Kerala.
1742
Maratha (Bargi) raids on Bengal
Battle · Murshidabad · Nawabs of Bengal
1746
French capture Madras (First Carnatic War)
Battle · Chennai · French India
1749
Battle of Ambur
Battle · Ambur · Carnatic (Nawabs of Arcot)
→ Anwaruddin Khan was killed; Chanda Sahib, backed by the French, took Arcot.
1751
Siege of Arcot
Battle · Arcot · Carnatic (Nawabs of Arcot)
→ Clive's defence of Arcot turned the Second Carnatic War in Britain's favour.
1757
Battle of Plassey
Battle · Palashi · British East India Company
→ Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and Mir Jafar became a Company-backed nawab.
1760
Battle of Wandiwash
Battle · Vandavasi · British East India Company
→ French power in India was broken.
1761
Third Battle of Panipat ♻
Battle · Panipat · Maratha Empire
→ The Marathas were crushed by Ahmad Shah Durrani and their northward expansion checked.
1764
Battle of Buxar ♻
Battle · Buxar · British East India Company
→ The Company defeated Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula and Shah Alam II together.
1767
First Anglo-Mysore War ♻
Battle · Mysore · Kingdom of Mysore
1768
Prithvi Narayan Shah conquers Kathmandu
Conquest / annexation · Kathmandu · Kingdom of Nepal — expansion era
→ Kathmandu became the capital of a unified Nepal.
1775
First Anglo-Maratha War begins ♻
Battle · Pune · Maratha Empire
1780
Battle of Pollilur ♻
Battle · Pollilur · Kingdom of Mysore
→ Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan destroyed a Company force under Colonel Baillie.
1795
Battle of Kharda
Battle · Kharda · Maratha Empire
→ The Marathas defeated the Nizam of Hyderabad.
1796
British take coastal Ceylon from the Dutch ♻
Conquest / annexation · Colombo · British Ceylon
→ Coastal Sri Lanka passed to Britain, confirmed by the Treaty of Amiens.
1799
Fall of Srirangapatna ♻
Battle · Srirangapatna · Kingdom of Mysore
→ Tipu Sultan was killed and the Wodeyars were restored as Company allies.
19th century CE · 13
1803
Battle of Assaye
Battle · Assaye · British East India Company
→ Arthur Wellesley defeated the combined Scindia and Bhonsle armies.
1803
British capture Delhi ♻
Conquest / annexation · Delhi · British East India Company
→ The Mughal emperor came under British protection.
1814
Anglo-Nepal War: siege of Nalapani
Battle · Nalapani, Dehradun · Kingdom of Nepal — expansion era
→ The Gorkha garrison under Balbhadra Kunwar held out before withdrawing.
1817
Battle of Khadki ♻
Battle · Khadki · Maratha Empire
→ The Peshwa's army was defeated near Pune.
1824
Kittur revolt against the Company
Battle · Kittur
→ Rani Chennamma won an early victory but was captured in a second assault.
1839
First Anglo-Afghan War begins ♻
Battle · Kabul · Emirate of Afghanistan
→ Shah Shuja was installed in Kabul, but British forces were destroyed in 1842.
1842
British retreat from Kabul
Battle · Gandamak · Emirate of Afghanistan
→ Almost the entire retreating British column was annihilated.
1843
Annexation of Sindh
Conquest / annexation · Hyderabad (Sindh) · British East India Company
→ Sindh was annexed after the Battle of Miani.
1845
First Anglo-Sikh War
Battle · Ferozeshah · Sikh Empire
→ The Sikhs ceded the Jullundur Doab and paid an indemnity.
1849
Punjab annexed ♻
Conquest / annexation · Lahore · British East India Company
→ The Sikh Empire ended and Maharaja Duleep Singh was pensioned off.
1856
Awadh annexed
Conquest / annexation · Lucknow · British East India Company
→ Wajid Ali Shah was deposed on the charge of misgovernance.
1858
Rani Lakshmibai falls at Gwalior
Battle · Gwalior
1878
Second Anglo-Afghan War ♻
Battle · Kabul · Emirate of Afghanistan
20th century CE · 11
1944
Battles of Imphal and Kohima
Battle · Kohima · British Raj (Crown Rule)
→ Allied victory; the Japanese and INA were forced to retreat.
1947
First Kashmir war ♻
Battle · Srinagar
1962
Sino-Indian War
Battle · Tawang · Republic of India
→ China declared a ceasefire after advancing in the east and in Aksai Chin.
1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 ♻
Battle · Lahore sector · Republic of India
→ The war ended in a UN-backed ceasefire.
1971
Bangladesh Liberation War ♻
Battle · Eastern front · Republic of India
→ Bangladesh became an independent nation.
1971
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 ♻
Battle · Dhaka · Republic of India
→ Pakistan's Eastern Command surrendered on 16 December 1971.
1979
Soviet intervention in Afghanistan ♻
Battle · Kabul · Afghanistan
1983
Sri Lankan civil war begins
Battle · Jaffna · Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
1984
Operation Blue Star ♻
Battle · Amritsar · Republic of India
1996
Civil war begins in Nepal
Battle · Rolpa · Kingdom of Nepal
1999
Kargil War
Battle · Kargil · Republic of India
→ India recaptured the heights that had been occupied.