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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar in West Bengal, India
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In May 1883, the 13-year-old Mohandas was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji in an arranged child marriage, according to the custom of the region.
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Gandhi leaves for England to study law. He goes to the University College London.
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Mohandas Gandhi was kicked off of the train in South Africa on June 7 1893 because the train people were racist and said he had to go back to the 3rd class train because he was in 1st class and he was Indian.
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Gandhi establishes the National Indian Congress in South Africa to fight discrimination in South Africa.
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The Boer Republic Transvaal, now under the control of the British, attempts to register all Indians as members; Gandhi and others refuse to register. Their resistance efforts mark the first use of nonviolent non-cooperation by the Indian minority in South Africa, soon calledsatyagraha, or "soul-force."
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This was the first time Gandhi was put into Jail in South Africa.
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After spending time in South Africa, he goes back to England.
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Gandhi leaves England and goes back to India. He is heroically welcomed.
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Brigadier General Reginald Dyer ordered fifty riflemen to aim at a gathering of around fifteen-thousand non-armed Indians. Firing at an almost point-blank range with high-powered rifles for ten minutes, Dyer's men caused at least 379 fatalities. This incident practically started the end of British rule in colonial India.
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This was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass protest demanding what Gandhi called "an orderly British withdrawal" from India.
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The British arrest Gandhi for speaking against them publicly.
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He becomes president of the Indian National Congress and continues protest in Congress.
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To protest and boycott the British, Gandhi started a boycott against British salt by conducting a long march to the sea to make salt from the seawater.
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After the march, the British arrested Gandhi for violating salt laws.
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Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification to help the Harijan movement. This was to protest unfair treatment of the Dalits or Untouchables
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Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in Bombay by the British on 9 August 1942. Gandhi was held for two years in the Aga Khan Palace in Pune
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He was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because of his failing health and necessary surgery; the Raj did not want him to die in prison and enrage the nation
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Gandhi was adamant against a partition of colonial India once independence was achieved. He believed that a united India would be stronger. However, the Muslim leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the winner in this struggle; India would be partitioned into two separate sovereign states. On the 15th of August, 1947, blood painted the streets red as millions of Hindus and Muslims flocked to the correct side of the new border between India and Pakistan. Despite Gandhi's efforts, blood was still shed.
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Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.
