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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar located in western India. The Gandhis were lower caste yet middle-class with deep Hindu religious beliefs.
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At age thirteen, Gandhi married Kasturba Makanji.
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Gandhi sails to England so that he can study law.
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Gandhi returns to India and begins to practice law.
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Gandhi moves his wife and children with him to South Africa.
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Gandhi organizes his first protest against anti-Indian laws in South Africa.
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Gandhi is imprisoned in South Africa.
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Gandhi sails to England.
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Gandhi returns to India.
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Gandhi calls for a period of non-cooperation across India
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Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India.
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Gandhi leads a march in a nonviolence protest against the British salt monoply in India.
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Congress leaders are arrested; Gandhi is imprisoned in the Aga Khan's palace.
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Gandhi begins the nationwide "Quit India" movement.
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Gandhi is released from the Aga Khan's palace.
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India gets its independence from the British.
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Gandhi is killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist.
