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Birth
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar in West Bengal, India -
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Gandhi's Marriage
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. -
Leaves for Law School
Gandhi leaves for England to study law. He goes to the University College London. -
Kicked off Train
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. -
Establishment of NIC
Gandhi establishes the National Indian Congress in South Africa to fight discrimination in South Africa. -
First Use of Nonviolence
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." -
First Imprisonment
This was the first time Gandhi was put into Jail in South Africa. -
Gandhi Sails Back to England
After spending time in South Africa, he goes back to England. -
Return to India
Gandhi leaves England and goes back to India. He is heroically welcomed. -
Amritsar Massacre
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. -
Call For Non Cooperation Period
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. -
Gandhi is Arrested for Sedition
The British arrest Gandhi for speaking against them publicly. -
Gandhi becomes President of Indian National Congress
He becomes president of the Indian National Congress and continues protest in Congress. -
The Salt March
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. -
Arrest for Salt Laws Violation
After the march, the British arrested Gandhi for violating salt laws. -
Gandhi's Hunger Strike
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 -
Imprisoned in Aga Khan's Palace
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 -
Released from Aga Khan's Palace
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 -
Independence and Partition of India
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. -
Death
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.
