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Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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The Life of Mohandas Gandhi
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Gandhi and Kasturbai are married.
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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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Gandhi returns to India to attend the Indian National Congress. G.K. Gokhale introduces him to nationalist leaders.
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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
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Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison.
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Gandhi is arrested again, spends a month in jail.
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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.
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Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests.
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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.
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Gandhi and his followers found Satyagraha ashram, the religiously-oriented communal farm where Gandhi, his family, and his followers will live.
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Gandhi calls for a period of non-cooperation across India.
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Gandhi is arrested for sedition.
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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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Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India.
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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).
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Gandhi is arrested for sedition, and held without a trial.
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Gandhi fasts in prison to protest the treatment of untouchables.
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World War II begins, lasting until 1945.
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Gandhi fasts nearly a month while imprisoned, to protest British rule.
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Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist.
