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Was also called India's First War of Independence. A large part of the Indian army rebelled against the British Authorities.
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The Government of India Act disbanded the East India Company and placed India directly under British rule.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.
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Death of Gandhi's father.
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Indian National Congress was the largest and most prominent Indian public organization, and central and defining influence of the Indian Independence Movement.
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Gandhi begins studies at University College London. He studies Indian law and also joins the Vegetarian Society while there. Gandhi avoids eating meat or drinking alcohol throughout his life.
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After completing his studies, Gandhi returns to India to start a law practice in Bombay.
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Gandhi returns to Bombay to get his wife and children so he can bring them to South Africa.
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Dutch Christians overtake Bali after Puputan massacres in which Hindu Balinese royal families are murdered.
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Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison
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Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests.
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Spanish Influenza epidemic kills 12.5 million in India, 21.6 million worldwide.
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Brigadier Dyer orders Gurkha troops to shoot unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, killing 379. Massacre convinces Gandhi that India must demand full independence from oppressive British Christian rule.
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Gandhi formulates the strategy "firmness in truth," of noncooperation and nonviolence against India's Christian British rulers.
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Exactly 20 years before India became a republic, the Indian National Congress in an electrifying resolution declared Purna Swaraj.
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Forced to buy salt only from Britain, Gandhi protests the monopoly by leading the Salt March from Sabermanti to the Arabian Sea, 240 miles away
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The Indian National Congress completed half a century both as a party and as a national movement.
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Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation, and 600,000 die in clashes during subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
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Gandhi is approached by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist. Gandhi blesses him and the man then shoots and kills him for being too sympathetic to the Muslims.
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Gandhi writes a pamphlet about the discrimination Indians face in South Africa.
