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British Rule Mutiny
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Government To Crown
Government of India transferred from East India Company to Crown -
Indian National Congress
It is the largest and one of the oldest democratically-operating political parties in the world.The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). -
Gandhi is Thrown Off Of A Train
Gandhi is thrown off of a train in South Africa for refusing to move from his First Class seat to Third Class (even though he held a valid First Class ticket). Such discrimination against Indians was common practice and this personal experience gives Gandhi resolve to fight racial discrimination. -
Congress Oppose
Gandhi founds the Natal Indian Congress to oppose a bill denying Indians the right to vote in South Africa. Although the bill passes, Gandhi successfully focuses a broad range of public attention on injustices against Indians even as far away as India and the UK. -
Non-Vieolent Protest Is Adopted
At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on 11 September 1906, Gandhi adopted his approach to non-violent protest -
Burn Registration Cards
Gandhi and 2,000 fellow Indians in Johannesburg burn their registration cards in protest. Even as Gandhi and other leaders are repeatedly arrested over 6 years of protest, non-violent rallies continue to grow in size. -
Satyagraha Revolutions
The first Satyagraha revolutions inspired by Mahatma Gandhi in the Indian Independence Movement occurred in Champaran district of Bihar and the Kheda district of Gujarat on 1916 and 1918 respectively. -
Rowlatt Bills
The Government of India rushed the Rowlatt Bills, through the Imperial Legislative Council in March 1919 in the teeth of the opposition of all the elected Indian members. Gandhi heard the debate in the Imperial Legislative Council and saw how the eloquent logic of Indian councilors had been wasted on the official benches. "You can wake a man," he wrote later, "only if he is really asleep; no effort that you may make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep". -
Perserikatan Communist
Perserikatan Communist Party Forms -
Boycott British
Gandhi gets people to more intently boycott British products and encourages people to start making their own clothes rather than buying British clothing. -
Gandhi starts Civil Disobedience
Mohindas Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India angainst unfair rules of the British crown -
Salt-March
Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax -
Gandhi Starts A Hunger Strike
The 73 year old Gandhi starts a hunger strike that lasts for 21 days. -
Gandhi Relased
Fearful that Gandhi would die in prison due to failing health and become a martyr, he and other leaders are released. -
India Becomes Independent
India becomes an independent nation. -
Tension Between Hindu And Muslim
Tensions between Hindu and Muslim factions resurface and escalate into violence. India is divided into Pakistan and India. The lasting effects of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 still affects the geopolitics of this region. -
Final Fast
Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast -
Attempting To Promote Peace
Attempting to promote peace and asking that homes be restored to Muslims, payment to Pakistan be made (per an agreement made before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947), and fighting cease, Gandhi (now 77 years old) starts another fast. Five days into the fast, India makes payment to Pakistan and Hindu, Muslim and Sikh community leaders agree to renounce violence and call for peace. -
Gandhi Assassinated
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated by Nathuram Godse
