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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Portbandar, India. Gandhi is often referred to as Mahatma, which means Great Soul.
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In May 1883, at the age of thirteen, Gandhi was married to Kasturba Makhanji, who was fourteen.
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On September 4, 1888, Mohandas traveled to London, England to study law at University College London.
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He returns to India to practice law.
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In April 1893, Gandhi accepted a year-long contract from Dada Abdula & Co. in South America.
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In May 1893, while Gandhi was on his way to Pretoria, a white man instructed Gandhi to move to a different van compartment. Gandhi, who had a first-class ticket, refused, and was thrown off the train at Pietermaritzburg.
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Mohandas Gandhi founds the Natal Indian Congress on August 22,1894.
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Gandhi opens a law office in Johannesberg, South Africa.
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Gandhi, followed by many, led the Salt March of 1930. The Salt March was a protest of salt tax. The British forbid Indians to make salt so that they were forced to buy their heavily taxed salt. It was a 241 mile march to the coast which took 24 days.
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Mahatma Gandhi and 50,000 others were arrested for participating in the Salt March.
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Gandhi fasts to protest treatment of Untouchables, who were cruely and unfairly treated.
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Mahatma and the other from INC agreed to the policy a non-cooperation with Britain. The British's response from this was more arrests.
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Kasturba Makhanji-Gandhi died at the age of 74. The cause was from two heart attacks that confined her to bed where she later died.
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Gandhi visited Muhammed Ali Jinnah in Bombay. They tried to work out an agreement to keep India together, but were unsuccessful.
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On January 30, Gandhi was on his way to Pakistan when he was shot. He was killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli by a Hindu extremist named Nathuram Godse. Godse's reason for killing Gandhi was that he believed Gandhi was betraying his own people by refusing to celebrate independence.
