Gandhi

  • Mohandas Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India

  • Gandhi moves with his family to Rajkot, India

  • - Gandhi gets married at the age of thirteen to Kasturba Makanji

  • Gandhi sails to England so that he can study law

  • Gandhi returns to India and begins to practice law

  • Gandhi accepts a job in South Africa

  • 1903 - Gandhi decides to open a law office in Johannesberg,South Africa

  • - Gandhi organizes his first protest against anti-Indian laws in South Africa

  • Gandhi is imprisoned in South Africa

  • Gandhi returns to India

  • After a big trial, Gandhi is sentenced to six years in jail

  • - Gandhi has to go to jail for breaking India's Salt Laws

  • - Gandhi fasts to protest treatment of Untouchables

  • He launches the All Indian Village Industries Association

  • Gandhi begins the nationwide "Quit India" movement

  • 1944 - Gandhi's wife dies at age seventy-four

  • India gets its independence from the British

  • Gandhi is killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli