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The 3rd Light Cavalry of the British East India Company's army rebels against its British officers, thus beginning the rebellion.
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British troops retake Lucknow. Later, peace treaty to end the Indian Rebellion
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Gandhi is born
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72 Indian lawyers, academics and journalists gather in Bombay to form the Congress Party.
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Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
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Amritsar Massacre: British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Sikhs at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in the Punjab Province (British India).
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Gandhi calls for a non-cooperation across India
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Mahatma Gandhi informs the British viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week. Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest at the British monopoly on salt; more will join them during the Salt March. In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks the Salt laws of British India by making salt by the sea at the end of the Salt March. Mahatma Gandhi is re-arrested.
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Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru suggests the exchange of four million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan.
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Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi to stop communal violence during the Partition of India.
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Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated