Battle of Panipat 1526

• The Battle of Panipat was fought between the invading forces of Babur and the Lodi Empire, which took place on 21 April 1526 in North India.

• It marked the beginning of the Mughal Empire. This was one of the earliest battles involving gunpowder firearms and field artillery.

• In 1526, the Mughal forces of Babur, the Timurid ruler of Kabulistan, defeated the much larger ruling army of Ibrahim Lodi,Sultan of Delhi.
Battle of Khanwa

• Battle of Khanwa was fought between the armies of RanaSanga (ruler of Mewar) and Babar (Mughal). 

• RanaSanga was betrayed by one of his allies, the King of Malwa, resulting into victory of Babar.

• The Battle was fought near the village of Khanwa, about 60 km west of Agra on March 17, 1527.

• Babur's grandson Akbar, established the city and fort of FatehpurSikri in honor of his grandfather's victory in this battle.
Sher Shah Suri 

• Sher Shah Suri , birth name Farid Khan, also known as Sher Khan, "The tiger King") was the founder of the Sur Empire in North India, with its capital at Delhi. 

• An ethnic Afghan, Sher Shah took control of the Mughal Empire in 1540. He first served as a private before rising to become a commander in the Mughal army under Babur and then as the governor of Bihar.

• In 1537, when Babur's son Humayun was elsewhere on an expedition, Sher Khan overran the state of Bengal and established the Sur dynasty.

• His reorganization of the empire laid the foundations for the later Mughal emperors, notably Akbar the Great, son of Humayun. 

• During his five year rule from 1540 to 1545, he set up a new civic and military administration, issued the first Rupee and re-organised the postal system of India

• . He further developed Humayun's Dina-panah city and named it Shergarh and revived the historical city of Pataliputra as Patna which had been in decline since the 7th century CE.

• He is also famously remembered for killing a fully grown tiger with his bare hands in a jungle of Bihar. 

• He extended the Grand Trunk Road from Chittagong in Bangladesh to Kabul in Afghanistan.
Second Battle of Panipat 

• The Second Battle of Panipat was fought between the forces of Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, popularly called Hemu, the Hindu king who was ruling North India from Delhi, and the army of Akbar, on November 5, 1556. 

• It was a decisive victory for Akbar's generals Khan Zaman I and Bairam Khan