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date of birth
Gandhi was born in 1869. he had an uneventful childhood and was born into a Hindu family. India was still part of the British Empire but by the time Gandhi had died India was an independent country thanks to his perseverance and stubborness. -
marriage
At age 13, Mohandas and 14-year old Kasturbai Makhanji had been arranged to get married on May 1883 (arranged marriages was a custom in the Indian culture). Within their marriage, they had a total of 5 children but 4 had lived. They had remained married until Kasturbai Makhanji's death. -
The first automobiles
The first car was made by Karl Friedrich Benz in 1886, in Germany. It was a 3-wheeled car and was the first motorized vehicle, combined with an internal combustion engine with an integrated chassis. The second kind of vehicle was made by Gottlieb Daimler, also in the same year but in a different German city. The vehicle was a 4-wheeled machine and with the first high-speech gasoline engine. These cars were the first ideas that had helped start the revolution of car we have today. -
Gandhi goes Africa
In 1893, at the age of 23, Gandhi had traveled to South Africa where he had learned to become a young lawyer. In South Africa, Mohandas Gandhi had first encountered the acts of segregation and discrimination on differences between the races. By this, he had shown his true place for truth and freedom through nonviolence. -
Founding the Natal Indian Congress
On August 22, 1894, Mohandas Gandhi had founded the Natal Indian Congress. These selected people were there to give the British the voice of the Indian people. The Congress was in charge of sharing the people's voices to the British and to fight for the people's rights and to give a say to new laws that were being made. As Gandhi being the secetary of the group he had shared his ideas of their freedom being enforced and thought about for the good of the people -
Gandhi 1st arrest
On January 10, 1908, Gandhi was arrested for the first time. the reasoning behind this was because he simply didn't want/ refused to carry an obligatory card in Africa because he was Indian. A few days after being released from prison he was sufferly beaten and badly injured by another Indian there. -
"Great March"
"The Great March" was an event held in South Africa on November 6, 1913. Gandhi had organized this parade to gain Indian rights in South Africa. A total of 2,037 men, 127 women and 57 children had joined Gandhi to protest against the British government that had ruled South Africa. -
World War I
World War I had started in 1914 and was known as the "the first modern war". Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Serbia had joined together and fought against Germany and Austrian-Hungary.After the war, it was announced that there was more than 9 million soldiers dead, more than 21 million wounded and over 10 million civilian casualties. there were many weapons and chemical inventions that were widely introduced and used throughout the war. -
Spanish Flu
In 1918, a pandemic had spread worldwide. It had infected about 500 million people worldwide and was sadly recorded as the deadliest virus in history. With the proper research, scientists concluded that this influenza attacked the respiratory system, it's highly contagious, there was no vaccine or medication that was able to treat this monster disease. We're unsure where the infection had actually originated. The people had developed an immunity to the virus towards the end of the Spanish flu. -
Gandhi commences on the salt Satyagraha
The Salt Satyagraha is a nonviolence act set out by Gandhi and his followers on March 12, 1930. The protested against the salt tax that the British had embarked on the people of India. After marching and protesting against the government, Gandhi and the people had made the British to lift the Salt tax. -
Gandhi-Irwin Pact
This document was signed by both Mohandas Gandhi and Lord Irwin on March 5, 1931. The pact had stated that Lord Irwin had said that the future of India was unspecified and at the Round Table Conference they'd discuss India's new constitution. Many people were unpleased with the conditions of the treaties and soon it had been initiated by the Indian National Congress. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was during World War II in 1939-1945. The holocaust is a Jewish and other ethnics genocide and over 6 million people were murdered and not a lot of them had survived. The Jews were sent to these concentration camps that were made by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, to put the Jews and other ethics to work, to kill them or to experiment on them. After the war had ended the US, Great Britain, and USSR had liberated all of the remaining people in the camps. -
World War II
World War II also known as the Second World War, was from 1939-1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in world history that had involved over 30 countries. It had started with the invasion of Poland and Great Britain and France had declared war on the Germans. The war had lasted for 6 bloody years and has estimated 45-50 million people were killed and 9 million of them were Jews who had been murdered by Adolf Hitler in his concentration camps throughout Europe. -
Frees India
In the year 1947, Gandhi had successfully freed the nation of India from the clutches of the British Empire. Gandhi had led a rebellion for almost 20 years. But the way he had rebelled along with the people of India was in a rather peaceful way. Gandhi was a pacifist meaning that he didn't believe that violence isn't the answer for everything and that war and violence were unjustifiable. He used nonviolence and peaceful civil disobedience as tactics to use against the British government.
