How Gandhi helped India Gain Independence

First Indian revolution

May 10, 1857

Called Sepoy Mutiny

India comes unedr direct rule of the british crown afer failed indian mutinity

May 20, 1858

Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India

Oct 2, 1869

First meeting for the indian national congress

Dec 28, 1885

was in Bombey

Gandhi is Ejected from a South African Train, Motivating Him to Fight for Indian Rights in the British Colony

May 20, 1893

Lord Curzon, British Viceroy, resigns

Nov 18, 1905

Formation of Muslim League

Dec 30, 1906

Gandhi is Arrested for the First Time, for Refusing to Carry an Obligatory ID Card in South Africa

Jan 10, 1908

Gandhi and assistant Magnlal agitate for better working conditions and abolition of indentured servitude in South Africa

May 20, 1909

Spanish Influenza epidemic kills 12.5 million in India

May 20, 1918

Brigadier Dyer orders Gurkha troops to shoot unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, killing 379.

Apr 13, 1919

Massacre convinces Gandhi that India must demand full independence from oppressive British Christian rule.

Apr 20, 1919

Gandhi leads the congress; strategy of noncooperation and nonviolence against India's Christian British rulers.

May 20, 1920

Gandhi Begins Twenty-One Day Fast in an Attempt to Reconcile Hindus and Muslims

Sep 20, 1924

Salt March, Gandhi Leads civilians to protest British rule in India.

Mar 20, 1930

Lasted from March ti April

The Governemnt of India act recives Royal assent

May 20, 1935

Mohammed Ali Jinnah calls for a separate Muslim state.

Aug 20, 1939

Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation, and 600,000 die in clashes during subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.

May 20, 1947

India gains independence from Britain

Aug 15, 1947

Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi, India

Jan 30, 1948