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1869 - October 2, Mohandas Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India
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1876 - Gandhi moves with his family to Rajkot, India
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1883 - Gandhi gets married at the age of thirteen to Kasturba Makanji
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1888 - Gandhi sails to England so that he can study law
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1891 - Gandhi returns to India and begins to practice law
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1893 - Gandhi accepts a job in South Africa
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1903 - Gandhi decides to open a law office in Johannesberg, South Africa
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1906 - Gandhi organizes his first protest against anti-Indian laws in South Africa
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1908 - Gandhi is imprisoned in South Africa
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1915 - Gandhi returns to India
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1922 - After a big trial, Gandhi is sentenced to six years in jail
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1930 - Gandhi has to go to jail for breaking India's Salt Laws
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1932 - Gandhi fasts to protest treatment of Untouchables
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1934 - He launches the All Indian Village Industries Association
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1942 - Gandhi begins the nationwide "Quit India" movement
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1944 - Gandhi's wife dies at age seventy-four
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1947 - India gets its independence from the British
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1948 - On January 30, Gandhi is killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli