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Mohandas Gandhi was born October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. Hie was born to Putlibai Gandhi & Karamchand Gandhi.
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At the age of thirteen, Gandhi was married Kasturbai Makhanji, who was fourteen years old. Arranged child marriage was the custom of the reigon. Because of the marriage, Gandhi miss a year of school.
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Gandhi moved to London, England in 1888 to study law. This is important since he'd return in 1891 to practice law. In 1903, he opens a law office in Johannesberg, South Africa.
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Daba Abdulla, a business man from Indian, offers Gandhi a job as a legal adviser. Gandhi accepts.
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Gandhi establishes the NIC, the National Indian Congress in South Africa. The NIC was established to fight discrimination in South Africa.
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Gandhi was sentenced to two months in jail. Later the same year, he's arrested again and spends another month in prison. These are only a few of the arrestes in his lifetime.
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Gandhi spent twenty one years in South Africa, developing political veiws and leadership skills. Gandhi finally sails back to England in 1914.
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Gandhi is aarrested for speaking agani the British publically. This is one of Gandhi's many arrestes.
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Gandhi and others begin to march to the ocean, trying to amend the British salt tax.
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Gandhi others are arrested for particpating in the Salt March. The salt march was a nonviolent protest against Britain's salt monoploy.
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Gandhi visited with Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the president of the Musilim league, in Bombay. They could not come to an agreement to keep India together.
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India is split into two nations, India and Pakistan. Gandhi was against the parting of India, he thought a united India would be stronger.
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Gandhi fasted in protest of violence. It lasted four days.
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Representitives convince Gandhi to end the fasting. He was becoming too weak and frail.
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Gandhi is assisnated on January 30, 1948 by Nathuram Godse at a prayer meeting in Dehli. Godse assassinated him for being too sypathetic towards Muslims.
