Gandhi Timeline

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  • Birth

    Birth
    This is when Gandhi was born
  • Got Married

    Got Married
    Gandhi and Kasturbai are married.
  • Death of Karamchand

    Death of Karamchand
    Death of Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhi's father
  • Study Law at England

    Study Law at England
    Gandhi leaves for England to study law
  • fails at lawyer in India.

    fails at lawyer in India.
    Gandhi fails as a lawyer in India. to 1993
  • Try Lawsuit in South Africa

    Try Lawsuit in South Africa
    Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising on a lawsuit.
  • Stays in South Africa

    Stays in South Africa
    Gandhi elects to stay on South Africa, and founds the Natal Indian Congress.
  • Returns to India

    Returns to India
    Gandhi returns to India to collect his wife and children.
  • Heads back to South Africa

    Heads back to South Africa
    Gandhi returns to South Africa with his family.
  • British Ambulance

    British Ambulance
    Outbreak of Boer War (1899-1901) in South Africa. Gandhi organizes an ambulance corps for the British
  • ending his sexual activity

    ·Gandhi struggles toward Brahmacharya, or celibacy, finally ending his sexual activity in 1906.
  • Prison

    Prison
    ·Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison.
  • Back to jail

    Back to jail
    Gandhi is arrested again, spends a month in jail.
  • Moutbatten

    Moutbatten
    Lord Mountbatten arrives in India and hammers out agreement for independence and partition.
  • India nationalist leaders

    India nationalist leaders
    ·Gandhi returns to India to attend the Indian National Congress. G.K. Gokhale introduces him to nationalist leaders.