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Mohandas Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.
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Gandhi gets married at the age of thirteen to Kasturba Makanji.
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Gandhi went to London, England to study law, leaving his wife for three years. While in London he also felt the need to study the English religion and change hs dietary habits.
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Gandhi travels back home as a barrister, or a lawyer, in Bombay. Only there for a short while he leaves again.
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After being offered a job in South Africa Gandhi relocates there whilst experiencing racial segregation and degrading first hand. He worked for Dada Abdullah & Co. and the Indian community.
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Gandhi decides to open a law office in Johannesberg, South Africa in hopes of a better life and peace.
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Gandhi organizes his first protest against anti-India laws in South Africa. He used a method of action based upon the principles of courage, nonviolence and truth called Satyagraha.
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Gandhi is imprisoned in South Africa because of his refusal to register. Whilst leading a march of Indian minners.
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Under Gandhi's leadership, he and many others march peacefully in protest of a racist poll tax and marriage laws. The marches continue through the winter.
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Gandhi returns to India.
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Gandhis is imprisoned again because sedition. He is in jail for 6 years.
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Gandhi starts the Salt March because the British raised taxes on taxes.
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Gandhi reaches the Indian Ocean ending the Salt March.
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Gandhi's wife Kasturbai dies due to chronic bronchitis at age 74.
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India gets its independence from the British is official. The partition into two countries, India and Pakistan now happens.
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Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist.
