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Revolt of East India Company Indian National Congress of 1857, and Gandhi is in struggle for freedom.
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Ending a century of control by the East India Company, the British Crown established in India
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The Hindu Indian National Congress was created in order to get rid of the foreign rulling in India
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Gandhi goes to South Africa to work in a law firm, and through out the time he was working here was when he started to develop his non-violence ideas and opposition to European racial discrimination against Indians in South Africa.
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First time he is imprisioned, he was arrested in South Africa for his refusal to register with the government.
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When the government announced that all indians had to register and provide identification on demand or risk deportation Gandhi asked all Indians to peacefully resist, which they agreed and had seven years of protest
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Gandhi begins evolving his first non-violent protest for the first time, creating the indian Muslim Rights group in South Afica
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"Great Soul", this is how they started to call Gandhi, "Mahatma". Title given by the Hindus to their holiest man.
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Gandhi returns to India like a hero, after peacefully fighting and standing up against the South African government.
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Indian Troops return home from fighting the british side which had promised equality and reforms to have more right, but still they were treated like second-class citizens
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British pass the Rowlatt Act, allowing the government to jail protesters without trial for as short as 2 years.
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Muslims and Hindus gathered in Amristar in a fair to pray and to listen to political speeches, which the british government after having public gatherings prohibited felt like a treath and wew ordered to fire at the unarmed Indians killing 400 Indians and leaving 1,200 wounded.
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The Congress Party allowed civil disobedience, Gandhi began his civil disobedience campaing and became the leader of the Independence Movement, consisting in public refusal to obey an unjust law and nonviolence as the means to achieve it.
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Accused of sedition Gandhi is sent to jail is sent to jail for 6 years
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Gandhi becomes President of the Indian National Congress
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Indian Declaration of Independence is published.
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Protesting against the Salt Act which was an act that said that all Indians were only allowed to buy salt from the British and had to pay a high tax for it, gandhi and his followers walked about 240 miles to the seacoast and started creating their own salt evaporating the sea salt water.
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Gandhi is arrested for violating the salt laws, causing as well movement in all India.
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While being in prison, Gandhi fasts in a protest against the treatment of the lower-class, also called the untouchables.
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British Parliament providd this act which provided India with local self government and limited democratic elections, but not total independence.
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India and Pakistan separate, oficial day they get independence, and this independence was set forth in the Indian Independence Act.
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Gandhi is killed by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse who was a Hindu Nationalist in the Indian Capital Dehli.
