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Birth
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. -
Marriage
At the age 13 Gandhi married 14 year old Kasturbai Makhanji in an arranged marriage. -
Gandhi travels to London to study law
Gandhi begins studies at University College London. He studies Indian law and also joins the Vegetarian Society while there. -
Returns home
Upon returning to India in mid-1891, he set up a law practice in Bombay, but met with little success. -
Gandhi leaves for South Africa
What was suppose to be a temporary assignment acting on behalf of a local Indian trader in a commercial dispute turned into a 21 year stay for Gandhi. Here he developed a strategy known as satyagraha (true-force) in which campaigners went on peaceful marches and presented themselves for arrest in protest against unjust laws. -
Rejected from South African train
While Gandhi was on his way to Pretoria, a white man objected to Gandhi's presence in a first-class carriage, and he was ordered to move to the end of the train. Gandhi, who had a first-class ticket, refused, and was thrown off the train at Pietermaritzburg. From that moment on Gandhi made a promise to himself that he would stay in South Africa and fight the racial discrimination against Indians there. -
Gandhi Founds the Phoenix Settlement
The settlement was based on the ideals of communal living whereby all persons irrespective of their social standing and occupation would receive an equal wage. They were to contribute to the common good and welfare of the settlement. -
Gandhi Introduces Non-Violent Protest Philosophy of Satyagraha
At a mass protest meeting held in Johannesburg on September 11th that year, Gandhi adopted his methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest, for the first time, calling on his fellow Indians to defy the new law and suffer the punishments for doing so, rather than resist through violent means. . -
"Great March"
Gandhi Begins "Great March" to Gain Indian Rights in South Africa
Led at 6.30.a.m. the "great march", consisting of 2,037 men, 127 women and 57 children from Charlestown; addressed marchers halfway between Charlestown and Volksrust. -
Gandhi Suspends South African Struggle After Winning Passage of the Indian Relief Act
The findings of the Commission led to the passing of the Indian Relief Act (Act no. 22 of 1914) which made provision for:
- the abolishment of the 3 pound tax;
- the legalisation of marriages conducted according to Indian rites:
- the relaxation of the immigration laws;
- All resisters were to be pardoned. -
Declaration of the Independence of India
The Declaration of the Independence of India was promulgated by the Indian National Congress on January 26, 1930, resolving the Congress and Indian nationalists to fight for Purna Swaraj, or complete self-rule apart from the British Empire. -
Mahatma Gandhi Embarks on the Salt Satyagraha
The Salt Satyagraha was a campaign of nonviolent protest against the British salt tax in colonial India which began with the Salt March to Dandi -
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is Assassinated by Nathuram Godse
About 5pm in the afternoon of the next day Gandhi, frail from fasting, was on his way to a prayer meeting when Nathuram Godse emerged from the admiring crowd, bowed to him and shot him three times in the stomach and chest
