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Mohandas K. Gandhi is born in Porbander, India
Gandhi`s father, Karamchand Gandhi, who belonged to the Hindu Modh community, was the Prime Minister of the eponymous Porbander state. His mother, Putlibai, who came from the Hindu Pranami Vaishnava community, was Karamchand's fourth wife, the first three wives having apparently died in childbirth. -
Gandhi gets married
In May 1883, the 13-year old Mohandas was married to 14-year old Kasturbai Makhanji. In an arranged child marriage, as was the custom in the region. Recalling about the day of their marriage he once said that " As we didn't know much about marriage, for us it meant only wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives." However, as was also the custom of the region, the adolescent bride was to spend much time at her parents' house, and away from her husband. -
Becoming a lawyer
In 1888, at the age of 19, Gandhi traveled to England to study law. After three years, he became a lawyer in 1891 and returned to India. He was very successful in his law and was the first colored man to become lawyer. After a year he was offered a job by an Indian businessman with interests in South Africa. -
Job in South Africa
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a young man of 24 when he arrived in South Africa in 1893.Gandhi's work in South Africa dramatically changed him, as he faced the discrimination commonly directed at black South Africans and Indians. One day in court at Durban, the magistrate asked him to remove his turban. He was thrown off a train at Standerton, in the Transvaal, after refusing to move from the first class to a third class coach while holding a valid first class ticket. -
Refusing to Carry an ID Card
Gandhi was arrested for breach of the registration law and clapped into prison. The following month he was released after an understanding seemed to have been reached with the government. A few days later, he was beaten up and severely injured by a compatriot, who accused him of betraying the Indian cause. -
Boer War
At the onset of the South African War, Gandhi argued that Indians must support the war effort in order to legitimize their claims to full citizenship, organizing a volunteer ambulance corps of 300 free Indians and 800 indentured labourers called the Indian Ambulance Corps, one of the few medical units to serve wounded black South Africans. At the conclusion of the war, however, the situation for the Indians did not improve, but continued to deteriorate. -
The Great March
Led at 6.30.a.m. the "great march", consisting of 2,037 men, 127 women and 57 children from Charlestown; addressed marchers halfway between Charlestown and Volksrust. At Volksrust border, Police Superintendent and Immigration Officer interviewed Gandhi and Kallenbach. Marchers broke through Police cordon, crossed border. Gandhi arrested at 8.30 p.m. at Palmford railway station, marchers continued their journey. -
Nationalist Mob Sets Fire to a Police Station
Around 2,000 protesters gatheredf or picketing of the liquor shop at the local market in Chauri Chaura. The police men arrived sensing trouble. Gave them a warning but they didnt care, 3 protestors dies on the spot and many were injured. The armed policemen lost courage seeing so many people, so went for shelter at the police station. The crowd decided to take revenge for their dead comrades and set fire to the building from all the sides. Twenty-two policemen were burnt alive. -
The big trial
On the evening of March 10, 1922, Gandhi was arrested in his ashram. The trial was held before Broomfield, District and Sessions Judge of Ahmedabad. The British judge behaved with great consideration, nodding respectfully to the accused in the dock before taking his seat. He acknowledged that Gandhi was in a different category from any person that he had ever tried or was likely to try. Gandhi made his task easy by pleading guilty. He was sentenced to six years imprisonment. -
The Salt March
Gandhi and 78 male satyagrahis set out on foot for the coastal village of Dandi, Gujarat, 240 miles from their starting point at Sabarmati Ashram.The first day's march of 13 miles ended in the village of Aslali, where Gandhi spoke to a crowd of about 4,000. As they entered each village, crowds greeted the marchers, beating drums and cymbals. Gandhi gave speeches attacking the salt tax as inhuman, and the salt satyagraha as a "poor man's battle."At Surat, they were greeted by 30,000 people. -
Gandhi fasts to Protest
The civil disobedience movement came when Gandhi, who was in Yeravda Jail, went on a fast as a protest against the segregation of the so-called "untouchables" in the electoral arrangement planned for the new Indian constitution.Gandhi was aware that his fast did exercise a moral pressure, but the pressure was directed not against those who disagreed with him, but against those who loved him and believed in him. He did not expect his critics to react in the same way as his friends and co-workers -
Quiet India
The Quit India Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. Gandhi hoped to bring the British government to the negotiating table. Almost the entire Congress leadership, and not merely at the national level, was put into confinement less than twenty-four hours after Gandhi's speech, and the greater number of the Congress leaders were to spend the rest of the war in jail. -
Kasturba Gandhi Dies
Kasturba suffered from chronic bronchitis. Stress from the Quit India Movement's arrests and hard life at Sabarmati Ashram caused her to fall ill. Kasturba fell ill with bronchitis which was subsequently complicated by pneumonia. In January of 1944, Kasturba suffered two heart attacks. She was now confined to her bed much of the time. Even there she found no respite from pain. Spells of breathlessness interfered with her sleep at night. -
India gets it`s Independence from the British
The Indian Independence Act 1947 was the statute enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom promulgating the partition of India and the independence of the dominions of Pakistan and India. The Act received royal assent on July 18, 1947. -
Gandhi is Assassinated
Madanlal Pahwa, Shankar Kistaiya, Digambar Badge, Vishnu Karkare, Gopal Godse, Nathuram Godse, and Narayan Apte came to Birla House to carry out another attack on Mahatma Gandhi. Madanlal Pahwa admitted that he was part of a seven member gang who wanted to kill Gandhi. The plan was that Madanlal Pahwa would explode a bomb as close to the podium as possible while Digambar Bagde or Shankar Kishtaiyya would shoot Gandhi in the head during the panic, using the chotic situation to escape.
