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Birth
The 2 of october of 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born in Porbandar, India. Their parents name is Putlibai Gandhi and Karamchand Gandhi. He live in India until the 1947. Gandhi as well have a other names, Bapu and Mahatma. -
Youth
At 18 he moved to London to study law in the University College London. When finish their study, He returned to Bombay, for to be a lawyer. In 1893 he had the opportunity to work in South Africa. -
Work in south africa
In 1893, Gandhi accept a contract of a work for one year. He interested by the laws of discrimination to the indians in Souht Africa. When he finished contract, Gandhi he were prepared for return in India with his family. -
Indian Congress party
When he retouned to India Gandhi founded in 1894 the Indian Congress Party and become political leader of Hindu immigrants. He created this congress because the English and Dutch they were about to make a civil war. -
Wedding
He married with Kastürba for family arrangements when Kastürba had 13 years old. Togeder they had four children. Harilal Gandhi the oldest, Manilal, Ramdas and the smallest Devdas.
In 1906 Gandhi told to his wife that he wanted to practic brahmacharia o celibacy. -
Gandhi in the march of the salt
One day Gandhi arrived to the seashore of the sea and caught a handful of salt symbolically breaking the monopoly. The campaign ended with a compromise agreement between Gandhi and the viceroy by virtue of which the production of salt is legalized and the approximately 100.000 prisoners detained during the demonstrations were released. -
Independence of India
After the taking of Rangoon by the Japanese, Gandhi demanded the complete independence of India, so that the country could freely make its decisions. After the war, and after the rise to power of the Labor Party in England, Gandhi played a fundamental role in the negotiations that led to the liberation. -
Acknowledgments
Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, although he was nominated five times between 1937 and 1948. Decades later, however, the Committee administering the Nobel Prize declared the injustice of such an omission, which he attributed to the divided nationalist sentiments that they denied such a prize to Gandhi. -
The murder
The 30 of January Gandhi went to a meeting for pray and he was killed for a group of white people in Birla Bhavan in New Delhi. When he died he had 78 years old. Apparently his last words before die were: “Hey Rama!”, this words they were copied on his monument.
