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Ghandi was born on October 2 1869, in Porbandor,India
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At 13 Gandhi had an arranged wedding to his wife Kasturbai Makhanji
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Gandhi was 15, the couple's first child was born, but survived only a few days. Gandhi's father, Karamchand Gandhi, had also died earlier that year.
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In 1888, 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.
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Gandhi worked with other Indian-rights activists in South Africa to create the Natal Indian Congress, an organization committed to giving Indians a collective voice in South African politics.
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Gandhi creates the Ambulance Corps to send a message to the British that Indians were capable and responsible individuals who deserved the same rights as other British subjects.
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Gandhi organized his first satyagraha campaign of peaceful non-cooperation to protest
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Dyer ordered troops to fire weapons at Indians (379 dead, 1,100 hurt)
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Gandhi organized a massive boycott of British goods and taxes to protest Western materialism and the British economic exploitation of India.
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Gandhi gets 50,000 indians to participate in march to Protest British tax on salt.
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The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was signed in March 1931. The British Government agreed to free all political prisoners, in return for the suspension of the civil disobedience movement.
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On 8 May 1933, Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement
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Gandhi returned to active politics again in 1936, with the Nehru presidency and the Lucknow session of the Congress.
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In August 1947 the British partitioned the land, with India and Pakistan each achieving independence on terms Gandhi disapproved.
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On Jan. 30, 1948, Mohandas Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Godse believed that the Mahatma, or the great soul, was responsible for the 1947 partition of India and the creation of Pakistan.
