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Gandhi is born in Porbandar, a small state in Western India
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When he was 13 he was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji
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Gandhi travelled to London, England to study law at University College London
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He accepted a year-long contract from Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian firm, to a post in the Colony of Natal, South Africa, then part of the British Empire
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Gandhi helped find found the Natal Indian Congress
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Gandhi wrote in the Indian Opinion of his time in a South African prison
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Gandhi returned from South Africa to live in India
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During the later part of WWI, the Viceroy invited Gandhi to a War Conference in Delhi
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Gandhi was invested with executive authority on behalf of the National Indian Congress. Under his leadership, the Congress was recognized with a new constitution, with the goal of Swaraj
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Gandhi arrested for sedition and sentenced to 6 years in prison
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Gandhi is released for an appendicitis operstion, having only served 2 years in prison
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Celebrated as India's Independence Day by the National Congress meeting in Lahore
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Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification to help the Harijan movement
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While the Indian National Congress and Gandhi called for the British to quit India, the Muslim League passed a resolution for them to divide and quit
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Gandhi was shot by Nathuram Godse while he was walking to a platform which he was to adderess a prayer meeting