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Born in Porbandar, India
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the coastal city of Porbandar, India. -
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Marries Kastubai Nakanj
I will marry Kastubai Nakanj at the age of 13, with whom I was engaged since the age of 6 without him knowing. -
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First trip to England.
His family sends him to study at a university in London, called Iner Temple. In which he began to frequent the theosophists, who introduced him to the reading of the first Indian classic, the Bhagavad Gita, which he considers the book for the knowledge of the truth. -
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He moves to South Africa, where he works on behalf of the Indians residing in that country.
After finishing his work, Gandhi was about to return to India when he learned of the existence of a bill to remove the right to vote for Hindus. So he decided to postpone his departure for one more month to fix that misunderstanding, and the month turned into twenty-two years. -
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Found a journalism medium
While in South Africa he founded the newspaper, called "The indian opinion" and created the Indian Congress of Natal -
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In India again
He returned to India and joined the Indian national movement. -
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Amritsar Massacre.
Gandhi was arrested while going to the town of Dheli, days later on April 13 the British Indian Army ordered the killing of unarmed Sikh, Hindu and Muslim men, women and children, who were gathered in the jallianwala garden for the vaisakhi festival. -
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First campaign of civil disobedience. He is sentenced to prison
Gandhi was arrested in March and sentenced to serve 6 years in prison for a campaign of civil disobedience. -
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March of salt.
The salt march began on March 12, due to the salt monopoly, which affected the poor. Gandhi left Sabartami (79 years old) for Dandi. On the day of the massacre in Amritsar, Gandhi reached the seashore and took a handful of salt with which he symbolically broke the monopoly. -
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Independence of India.
It took Gandhi 8 years for the dependency, since on August 9, 1942 he was arrested. In jail he found out that his wife had died. In 1944 he left and on August 15, 1947 Gandi achieved independence. -
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Killed by a Hindu fanatic
On January 30 Gandhi was assassinated at the age of 78 by a fanatic in New Delhi, India.