Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Timeline

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  • Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    From the day he was born, to the day he died.

  • Gandhi and Kasturbai are married

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  • Death of Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhi's father

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  • Gandhi leaves for England to study law

  • Gandhi passes the bar exam in England

  • Gandhi fails as a lawyer in India. 1891-1893

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  • Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising on a lawsuit.

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  • Gandhi elects to stay on South Africa, and founds the Natal Indian Congress. Spring

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  • Gandhi returns to India to collect his wife and children

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  • Gandhi returns to South Africa with his family

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

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  • Outbreak of Boer War (1899-1901) in South Africa. Gandhi organizes an ambulance corps for the British.

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  • Nationalists found the magazine the Indian Opinion, and soon print it on Gandhi's farm, the "Phoenix Settlement."

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  • Gandhi struggles toward Brahmacharya, or celibacy, finally ending his sexual activity from 1901-1906.

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  • 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 is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison.

  • Gandhi is arrested again, spends a month in jail.

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 The Transvaal registration law is repealed.

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  • Indians in Natal and Transvaal

    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.

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

  • Gandhi sails to England.

  • Gandhi arrives in England, just at the outbreak of World War I(1914-1918).

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  • Gandhi returns home to India, and receives a hero's welcome.

  • Gandhi and his followers found Satyagraha ashram, the religiously-oriented communal farm where Gandhi, his family, and his followers will live.

  • Nationalists hold a hartal, or day of fasting and prayer, in protest of the Rowlatt Act, which drastically curtails civil liberties in India.

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

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

  • Gandhi is arrested for sedition.

  • 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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  • Residents in the district of Bardoli protest high rents using methods of non-cooperation inspired by Gandhi.

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  • Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India.

  • British government

    British government yields to protests, releases all prisoners, invites a Congress representative to Britain for a Round Table Conference (the Congress asks Gandhi to be this representative). I was unable to fin the day for this event. Sorry

  • Gandhi warns the Viceroy of his intention to break the Salt Laws.

  • Gandhi leads his Salt March to the sea.

  • Gandhi is arrested for violating the Salt Laws; non-cooperation movements break out across India.

  • Gandhi participates in the Round Table Conference in Britain.

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  • Gandhi returns to India.

  • Gandhi is arrested for sedition, and held without a trial.

  • Gandhi fasts in prison to protest the treatment of untouchables.

  • Government of India Act passes British Parliament and is implemented in India; it is the first movement toward independence.

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  • Gandhi avoids politics, travels in rural India. 1934-1938

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  • World War II begins, lasting until 1945.

  • Sir Stafford Cripps

    Sir Stafford Cripps arrives in India, presenting to the Indian National Congress a proposal for Dominion status (autonomy within the British Commonwealth) after the War.

  • Congress leaders are arrested; Gandhi is imprisoned in the Aga Khan's palace.

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  • Indian National Congress

    The Indian National Congress rejects the Cripps proposal, and declares it will grant its support for the British war effort only in return for independence.

  • Gandhi fasts while imprisoned, to protest British rule.

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  • Death of Kasturbai

  • Gandhi is released from the Aga Khan's palace.

  • Gandhi visits Muhammed Ali Jinnah in Bombay, but is unable to work out an agreement that will keep India whole.

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  • British Cabinet Mission publishes proposal for an Indian state, without partition; Jinnah and the Muslim League reject the proposal.

  • Lord Mountbatten arrives in India and hammers out agreement for independence and partition.

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  • Indian independence becomes official, as does the partition into two countries, India and Pakistan.

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

  • India dissolves into chaos and killings, as Hindus and Muslims flee for the borders of India and Pakistan. August-December

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