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Birth-Oct 2 1869
Gandhi was born -
Was Married May of 1883
He was only 13 years of age when he gotten married to Kasturbai Makhanji. They had their first child two years later but it sadly died shortly after birth. -
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1884
This is a stage in life where he will be come rebellious. He find a land where meat-eating, smoking, and petty pilfering were common for people his age. He regrets this later. -
Gandhi finds Natal Indian Congress
This is the first major impact Gandhi would have on history. -
Death of Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhi's father 1885
Obviously this would effect him because of his father just died. -
Gandhi leaves for England to study law. September 4, 1888
He leaves to England to be a lawyer to support him and his family. -
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Gandi fails as a lawyer. 1891-1893
He tries to support himself and his family after studying law and turns out he does not make a good lawyer. -
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Gandhi returns to India to collect his wife and children
He finds his wife and children in India in the Spring of 1896 and returns with them to South Africa in the winter of the same year. -
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The outbreak of the Boer War
Gandhi organizes an ambulance corps for the British. -
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The year of 1908
Gandhi spend most of the months of this year in jail. -
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1909
Gandhi travels to London, pushing for rights of South African Indians. The Transvaal registration law is repealed. -
November 13, 1913
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 -
July 18, 1914
Gandhi sails to England. And arrives at the start of WWI -
June 30, 1914
Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests. -
In between WWI and WWII
Gandhi was in and put of prison because of his protest. -
February 22, 1944
Death of Kasturbai (his wife) -
January 30, 1948
Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist.