Pakistan Affairs Test 30

Benjamin Franklin, due to his invention of the lightning rod, is known as the:

✅ Father of Electricity

📚 Explanation :

• ✅Benjamin Franklin conducted famous experiments with lightning and electricity using a kite during a thunderstorm.
• ✅His invention of the lightning rod proved that lightning is a form of electricity.
• ✅Because of his pioneering work in the study and practical use of electricity, he is often referred to as the Father of Electricity .

 ✅ Panipat is in the state of: Haryana (India)

 Details:

• Location: Northern India
• State: Haryana
• Distance from Delhi: Around 90 km north of New Delhi
• Known As:
  🔹 "City of Weavers", “Textile City of India”
  🔹 Site of Three Historic Battles of Panipat

Battles of Panipat – 

 ✅  1st Battle of Panipat  (1526)

  🔹  Date: 21 April 1526  

  🔹  Fought Between Babur (Mughals) vs Ibrahim Lodhi (Delhi Sultanate)  Winner Babur (Mughals)   

  🔹 Significance Beginning of Mughal Empire in India.
   ✅ 2nd Battle of Panipat (1556) 

   🔹 Date: 5 November 1556  

  🔹 Fought Between Akbar (Mughals) vs Hemu (Hindu King/Vikramaditya)   WinnerAkbar (Mughals)  

  🔹 Significance Consolidated Akbar’s rule after Humayun’s death.

  ✅  3rd Battle of Panipat (1761)   

  🔹  Date:14 January 1761  

   🔹 Fought Between Ahmad Shah Abdali (Afghans) vs Marathas (Sadashivrao Bhau)   Winner Ahmad Shah Abdali (Afghans)  

   🔹 SignificanceMajor defeat for Marathas, stopped their northward expansion.

📝 Exam Tip:

•  🔹 All 3 battles took place in Panipat, near Delhi, due to its strategic location.
•  🔹 Always remember the sequence:
   Babur – Akbar – Abdali
  (1st – 2nd – 3rd).