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birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India -
Gandhi got married
Gandhi got married to Kasturbai at the age of 13, when she was at the age of 14. Part of the marriage they will have 4 children together. -
gandhi tries law school in London.
Gandhi begins studying at a university college in London. He studies Indian law and also joins a vegetarian society while there. -
the return to India
Gandhi returns to India to pursue his career as a lawyer. Although he has failed at being a lawyer do to his shyness in court, he now excepts opening up to other jobs. -
trip to south Africa
Gandhi agrees to travel to South Africa to help a muslim Indian law firm with a lawsuit. -
Easy decision
Gandhi doesn't return back to India the day he is supposed to because he learns about a bill that would not be able to vote so South Africa is where he stays. -
"the green pamphlet"
Gandhi writes a pamphlet about the discrimination Indians face in South Africa. -
refusal into South Africa
Realizing that Gandhi is going to be staying in South Africa he goes back to India so that he can get his wife and children to South Africa as well. Once arriving to South Africa a group of angry white men refuse to let Gandhi and his family in because of him stirring up problems with the Indians. -
Gandhi's first arrest
Gandhi is arrested because he refused to register with the government in South Africa. -
Mahatma
Gandhi is given the title Mahatma which is referred to "Great soul". He isn't to happy about the name because he believes all souls are equal. -
declaration of independence
Gandhi publishes the declaration of independence as he returned in India as a hero. -
Salt march
Gandhi is forced to buy salt only from Britain, so he protests the monopoly by leading the salt march from Sabermanti to the Arabian Sea, 240 miles away. -
Great Britain grants India and Pakistan their independence.
Calling it the "noblest act of the British nation", Gandhi celebrates India's independence from England. Unfortunately, the celebration does not last long when hundreds of thousands of people die from the violence between the Muslims of Pakistan and the Hindus of India. -
Gandhi's assassination.
Gandhi is approached by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist. Gandhi blessed him and then the man shoots and kills him for being to sympathetic to the Muslims.