⚔ 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 · 5
1510
Portuguese capture Goa
Conquest / annexation · Goa · Portuguese Estado da Índia
→ Goa became the capital of the Portuguese Estado da Índia until 1961.
1535
Humayun takes Mandu and Champaner
Conquest / annexation · Champaner · Mughal Empire
1558
Portuguese occupy Malé
Conquest / annexation · Malé · Portuguese Malé
1573
Akbar conquers Gujarat
Conquest / annexation · Ahmedabad · Mughal Empire
1586
Mughals annex Kashmir ♻
Conquest / annexation · Srinagar · Mughal Empire
17th century CE · 4
1601
Asirgarh falls to Akbar
Conquest / annexation · Asirgarh · Mughal Empire
1656
Dutch take Colombo from the Portuguese ♻
Conquest / annexation · Colombo · Dutch Ceylon
→ Portuguese rule in Sri Lanka ended by 1658.
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 · 2
1768
Prithvi Narayan Shah conquers Kathmandu
Conquest / annexation · Kathmandu · Kingdom of Nepal — expansion era
→ Kathmandu became the capital of a unified Nepal.
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.
19th century CE · 4
1803
British capture Delhi ♻
Conquest / annexation · Delhi · British East India Company
→ The Mughal emperor came under British protection.
1843
Annexation of Sindh
Conquest / annexation · Hyderabad (Sindh) · British East India Company
→ Sindh was annexed after the Battle of Miani.
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.