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Mohandas Gandhi is born.
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Gandhi gets hired by Dada Abdula & Co. in South Africa for a year long contract.
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Mohandas traveled to London England to study law at University College London.
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Returns to India to practice law.
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Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising a lawsuit.
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Mohandas Gandhi founds the Natal Indian Congress on August 22,1894.
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He opens up his own law office in Johannesburg, South Africa
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The Boer Republic Transvaal, now under the control of the British, attempts to register all Indians as members Gandhi and others refuse to register.
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Indians in Natal and Transvaal, under Gandhi's leadership, march peacefully in protest of a racist poll tax and marriage laws. The marches continue through the winter.
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Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests.
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Gandhi and his followers found Satyagraha ashram, the religiously-oriented communal farm where Gandhi, his family, and his followers will live.
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Gandhi is arrested for sedition.
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Gandhi remains in prison.
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Gandhi avoids politics, focusing his writings on the improvement of India.
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Despite his long absence from politics, Gandhi becomes President of the Indian National Congress.
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Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India
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Gandhi, followed by many, led the Salt March of 1930. The Salt March was a protest of salt tax. The British forbid Indians to make salt so that they were forced to buy their heavily taxed salt. It was a 241 mile march to the coast which took 24 days.
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Gandhi and 50,000 other indians are arrested for participating in the Salt March.
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Gandhi participates in the Round Table Conference in Britain.
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Gandhi fasts to protest treatment of Untouchables, who were cruely and unfairly treated.
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Mahatma and the other from INC agreed to the policy a non-cooperation with Britain. The British's response from this was more arrests.
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Indian independence becomes official, as does the partition into two countries, India and Pakistan.
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On January 30, Gandhi was on his way to Pakistan when he was shot. He was killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli by a Hindu extremist named Nathuram Godse. Godse's reason for killing Gandhi was that he believed Gandhi was betraying his own people by refusing to celebrate independence
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·India dissolves into chaos and killings, as Hindus and Muslims flee for the borders of India and Pakistan.
