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Gandhi was born
Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a coastal town which was then part of the Bombay Presidency, British India. -
Gandhi gets married
Gandhi age 13, was married to Kasturbai Makhanji, age 14. In the process of getting married he lost a year of school. -
Gandhi leaves for London
Gandhi travelled to London, England, to study law at University College London, where he studied Indian law and jurisprudence and to train as a barrister at the Inner Temple. -
Gandhi leaves london
Gandhi left London for India, where he learned that his mother had died while he was in London and that his family had kept the news from him. He attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay,but failed because he was too shy to speak up in court. He later returned to Rajkot to make a modest living drafting petitions for litigants but was forced to close it when he ran afoul of a British officer. -
Gandhi accepts contract
Gandhi accepted a year-long contract from Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian firm, to a post in the Colony of Natal, South Africa, then part of the British Empire. -
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Civil rights movement in South Africa
Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa, where he developed his political views, ethics and political leadership skills. Indians in South Africa were led by wealthy Muslims, who employed Gandhi as a lawyer, and by impoverished Hindu indentured laborers with very limited rights. While there he faced the discrimination directed at all coloured people. -
Gandhi in Durban
When Gandhi landed in Durban, a mob of white settlers attacked him and he escaped only through the efforts of the wife of the police superintendent. He, however, refused to press charges against any member of the mob, stating it was one of his principles not to seek redress for a personal wrong in a court of law. -
Gandhi and the africans
British declared war against the Zulu kingdom in Natal, Gandhi encouraged the British to recruit Indians.He argued that Indians should support the war efforts in order to legitimise their claims to full citizenship.The British accepted Gandhi's offer to let a detachment of 20 Indians volunteer as a stretcher-bearer corps to treat wounded British soldiers. -
Gandhi returning to India
Gandhi returned to India permanently. He brought an international reputation as a leading Indian nationalist, theorist and organizer. He joined the Indian National Congress and was introduced to Indian issues, politics and the Indian people primarily by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. -
Salt March
Gandhi launched a new Satyagraha against the tax on salt in March 1930. This was highlighted by the famous Salt March to Dandi from 12 March to 6 April, where he marched 388 kilometres (241 mi) from Ahmedabad to Dandi, Gujarat to make salt himself. Thousands of Indians joined him on this march to the sea. -
Gandhi'd life
In summer, three attempts were made on Ghandhi's life. -
Rejoining Politics
Gandhi returned to active politics again with the Nehru presidency and the Lucknow session of the Congress. -
Politics
Gandhi resigned from Congress party membership. He did not disagree with the party's position but felt that if he resigned, his popularity with Indians would cease to stifle the party's membership, which actually varied, including communists, socialists, trade unionists, students, religious conservatives, and those with pro-business convictions, and that these various voices would get a chance to make themselves heard. -
Partition
Gandhi was infuriated and personally visited the most riot-prone areas to stop the massacres.[103] He made strong efforts to unite the Indian Hindus, Muslims, and Christians and struggled for the emancipation of the "untouchables" in Hindu society. -
Independence Act
Indian Independence Act was invoked, But for his teachings, the efforts of his followers, and his own presence, there perhaps could have been much more bloodshed during the partition, according to prominent Norwegian historian, Jens Arup Seip. -
Assassination
Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan