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Gandhi’s Birth
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near Bombay. -
Gandhi got married for the first time.
Gandhi was married when he was only 13 years old. -
Gandhi went to London to study law.
When Gandhi was 19 he went to University College in London to study law. Study abroad wasn’t custom so this was a big deal. There ‘he was persuaded by John Ruskin’s plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handcrafts.’ -
Gandhi returned to India
In 1891 Gandhi went back to India. -
Gandhi went to South Africa
Gandhi was unsuccessful in Bombay so he went to South Africa in 1893. He was the first so called “colored” lawyer admitted to the supreme court at Natal. Then he built a large practice. -
Gandhi founded the Natal Congress.
Gandhi found interest in the problem of fellow Indians who came to South Africa as slave laborers soon after he came to South Africa. In 1894 he founded the Natal Indian Congress to agitate for Indian rights while remaining loyal to the British. -
Gandhi gave aid against the Zulu revolt
In 1906 Gandhi gave aid against the Zulu revolt. Later in 1906 Gandhi began his peaceful revolution. He said he would either die or go to prison before he obeyed an anti-Asian law. He was accompanied by thousands of Indians and imprisoned twice. -
Gandhi returns to India again.
In World War I Gandhi organized an ambulance corps for the British before returning home to India in 1914. Gandhi’s writings and lifestyle won him many Indian followers. They followed him in his campaign swaraj or “home rule”. He worked to reconcile all classes and religious groups, especially Hindus and Muslims -
1922 Imprisonment
In 1920 Gandhi launched a noncooperation campaign against Britain, encouraging Indians to boycott British goods, courts, and governments that led to his imprisonment from 1922-1924. -
1934 Retirement
In 1934 Gandhi retired as head of the party but remained the actual leader and he gradually became convinced that India would receive no real freedom as long as it was part of the British Empire. So then in World War II he demanded independence and got imprisoned again. -
VICTORY
In 1947 Gandhi was victorious in winning India’s independence. The subcontinent split into India and Pakistan and brought Hindu-Muslim riots but Gandhi remainder nonviolent. -
Gandhi’s Assasination
Gandhi was assasinated on his way to a prayer in Delhi. He was killed by a Hindu who was maddened by Gandhi’s efforts to reconcile Hindus and Muslims.