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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar.
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Gandhi gets married to Kasturbai through an arranged marriage.
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Gandhi leaves for England to study law.
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Gandhi goes to South Africa to advise on a lawsuit for a year. While there, in spring of 1894, he founded the Natal Indian Congress.
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Gandhi refuses to register to the Boer Republic Transvaal, which was under control by the British. Gandhi along with others resist and it marks the first use of nonviolent non-cooperation by the Indians in South Africa, it became known as Satyagraha, which means "soul force."
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Gandhi gets arrested for refusing to cooperate with the Boer Republic Transvaal and spends two months in prison.
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British General Dyer commands his troops to slaughter Indians that were peacefully gathered for a festival.
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Gandhi calls for a period of noncooperation to the British across India. He is later arrested for sedition and spends approximately 2 years in prison.
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Gandhi published the Declaration of Independence for India from the British.
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Gandhi leads people to the sea to collect their own salt because the law forbid Indians to make their own salt and the tax on imported salt was high. The march took 24 days and thousands of people joined. About 50,000 people were arrested including Gandhi.
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Gandhi fasts in prison for 5 days to try to better the treatment of the "untouchables."
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The INC declares that it will only support the British War effort in WWII if they return with Indian independence.Gandhi is again imprisoned.
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Gandhi tries to make an agreement to keep India whole after independence, but is unsuccessful. The Bristish will only allow Indian independence without partition, but the Muslims reject.
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India is officially independent, but is separated into two countries, Pakistan and India.
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Hindus and Muslims cause chaos and murders. Hindus migrate to India and Muslims migrate to Pakistan.
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Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist. Nearly a million people attended his funeral.
