Mohandas Gandhi

By mcdoo

  • Mohandas was born in India

    Mohandas was born today and will eventually lead India.

  • Gandhi gets married

    Gandhi is married to a woman named Kasturbai in India.

  • Gandhi studies law

    Gandhi leaves India to study law in England.

  • Gandhi relocates to South Africa

    After failing as a lawyer in India, Gandhi collects his wife and children and moves to South Africa to practice law.

  • Gandhi returns to India

    Gandhi returns to India to attend the Indian National Congress. G.K. Gokhale introduces him to nationalist leaders.

  • Gandhi refuses the Boer Republic Transvaal

    The Boer Republic Transvaal, now under the control of the British, attempts to register all Indians as members; Gandhi and others refuse to register. Their resistance efforts mark the first use of nonviolent non-cooperation by the Indian minority in South Africa, soon calledsatyagraha, or "soul-force."

  • Gandhi gets arrested

    Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison.

  • Back in jail

    Gandhi is arrested again, spends a month in jail.

  • Gandhi makes a change

    Gandhi travels to London, pushing for rights of South African Indians. The Transvaal registration law is repealed.

  • Gandhi begins his protests

    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.

  • Protests peacefully ended

    Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests.

  • A massacre occurs

    Amritsar Massacre; Under General Dyer, British troops slaughter Indian protesters.

  • Gandhi retaliates

    Gandhi calls for a period of non-cooperation across India.

  • Gandhi takes a break

    Gandhi was thrown back in jail, after being released,Gandhi avoids politics, focusing his writings on the improvement of India.

  • Gandhi's back!

    Despite his long absence from politics, Gandhi becomes President of the Indian National Congress.

  • India's independence

    Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India

  • Death of a hero

    Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist.