Mohandas Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi is borm

Oct 2, 1869

Mohandas Gandhi is born.

Gandhi gets a job

Apr 22, 1883

Gandhi gets hired by Dada Abdula & Co. in South Africa for a year long contract.

University College London

Sep 4, 1888

Mohandas traveled to London England to study law at University College London.

Returning to India

Jun 14, 1891

Returns to India to practice law.

South Africa lawsuit

Apr 1, 1893

Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising a lawsuit.

National Indian Congress

Aug 22, 1894

Mohandas Gandhi founds the Natal Indian Congress on August 22,1894.

Gandhi's own office

Oct 31, 1903

He opens up his own law office in Johannesburg, South Africa

First nonviolent non-cooperation

Jul 31, 1907

The Boer Republic Transvaal, now under the control of the British, attempts to register all Indians as members Gandhi and others refuse to register.

Marches

Nov 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.

Gandhi and Smuts

Jun 30, 1914

Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests.

Satyagraha ashram

May 25, 1915

Gandhi and his followers found Satyagraha ashram, the religiously-oriented communal farm where Gandhi, his family, and his followers will live.

Arrested for sedition

Mar 10, 1922

Gandhi is arrested for sedition.

Time in jail

Period: Mar 10, 1922 to Jan 10, 1924

Gandhi remains in prison.

Avoids Politics works on writing

Period: Jan 10, 1924 to Jan 10, 1928

Gandhi avoids politics, focusing his writings on the improvement of India.

President of the Indian National Congress

Jan 10, 1925

Despite his long absence from politics, Gandhi becomes President of the Indian National Congress.

Declaration of Independence of India

Jan 26, 1930

Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India

Salt March

Mar 12, 1930

Gandhi, followed by many, led the Salt March of 1930. The Salt March was a protest of salt tax. The British forbid Indians to make salt so that they were forced to buy their heavily taxed salt. It was a 241 mile march to the coast which took 24 days.

Arrested

May 5, 1931

Gandhi and 50,000 other indians are arrested for participating in the Salt March.

Round Table Conference

Nov 12, 1931

Gandhi participates in the Round Table Conference in Britain.

Ghandi starves

Sep 20, 1932

Gandhi fasts to protest treatment of Untouchables, who were cruely and unfairly treated.

"Quit India"

Dec 11, 1942

Mahatma and the other from INC agreed to the policy a non-cooperation with Britain. The British's response from this was more arrests.

Indian Independance

Aug 15, 1947

Indian independence becomes official, as does the partition into two countries, India and Pakistan.

Assassinated

Jan 30, 1948

On January 30, Gandhi was on his way to Pakistan when he was shot. He was killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli by a Hindu extremist named Nathuram Godse. Godse's reason for killing Gandhi was that he believed Gandhi was betraying his own people by refusing to celebrate independence

Chaos in India

Period: Aug 10, 1948 to Dec 10, 1948

·India dissolves into chaos and killings, as Hindus and Muslims flee for the borders of India and Pakistan.