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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in the town of Porbander in the state of what is now Gujarat on 2 October 1869.
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Gandhi leaves for England to study law
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Gandhi does not do well as a lawyer in India
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Ganhdi attended the Indian National Congress. G.K. Gokhale introduces him to nationalist leaders.
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Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison.
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Gandhi travels to London, pushing for rights of South African Indians. The Transvaal registration law is repealed
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Nationalists hold a hartal, or day of fasting and prayer, in protest of the Rowlatt Act, which drastically curtails civil liberties in India
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Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India
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Gandhi has to go to jail for breaking India's Salt Laws
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Gandhi leads his Salt March to the sea
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The Indian National Congress rejects the Cripps proposal, and declares it will grant its support for the British war effort only in return for independence
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Gandhi visits Muhammed Ali Jinnah in Bombay, but is unable to work out an agreement that will keep India whole
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Gandhi's wife dies at age seventy-four
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Gandhi is killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli
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India dissolves into chaos and killings, as Hindus and Muslims flee for the borders of India and Pakistan
