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Mahatma Gandhi
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Completed his degree.
Gandhi successfully completed his degree at the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar on 10 June 1891. -
Return to Africa
In May 1894, he had organized the Natal Indian Congress. -
Returning to India
In 1896, he returned to India and enlisted support from some prominent Indian leaders. To help out africa He then returned to South Africa with 800 free Indian people. -
Gandhi publishes "The Green Pamphlet."
Gandhi writes a pamphlet about the discrimination Indians face in South Africa. Great Britain, which controls South Africa, believes that "The Green Pamphlet" is an anti-government document and begins to view Gandhi as a threat. -
Gandhi & The Asiatic Registration Act.
When the Transvaal government announced that all Indians must register and produce identification on demand or risk begin deported. Gandhi wants his Indian peope to peacefully resist. -
Gandhi Gandhi organizes acts of satyagraha
Gandhi organizes acts of satyagraha which means non vilent protest. -
Wrote 'Hind Swaraj' on the way
Returned to South Africa, he then wrote 'Hind Swaraj' on the way. This book has 100 pgs. -
Aressted for not showing his registration
While returning from Natal, as he was unable to show his registration. He had burnt his resistraiton card becasue he thought this was unjust. His sentence was imprisonment with hard labour. -
Gandhi is given the title Mahatma.
Rabindranath Tagore, and Indian poet and Nobel Laureate, refers to Gandhi for the first time as Mahatma. The title means "Great Soul" and is given by Hindus to only the holiest men. Gandhi is not fond of it means. He believes all souls are equal. -
Gandhi and Smuts reach a agrrement.
Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests that Gandhi and his fellow people were in. -
Ghadi Supports the Bristh war efforts.
July 1914, Gandhi left South Africa to return to India. He supported the British war effort in World War I but remained critical of colonial authorities for measures that he felt was unjust to his people. -
Amritsar Massacre
More than 400 peaceful proesters were killed. They were protesting agaisnt the Rowlatt Act. -
Aressted for sedition
Gandhi was arrested and charged with sedition for leading a campaign of mass civil disobedience against the Britain's rule in India. He was sentenced to six years in prison. -
Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India.
Having returned to India as a hero in 1915, Gandhi leads the movement to break away from Great Britain. He publishes the Declaration of Independence of India, representing the Indian National Congress and makes his case for Indian independence. -
Salt March
The salt march was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi to protest British rule in India. -
Demand for Swaraj
In March 1931 the Irwin-Gandhi pact was signed according to which the British government agreed to free political prisoners if Gandhi denounced the civil disobedience movement. -
Frist assaintion attempt
People tried to him many yimes this was the frist out of many attempts. -
Quit India protest
In late 1942, Gandhi launched the Quit India civil obedience movement and demanded for immediate independence for India. -
Aressted for India movement.
He was arrested for his Quit India’ movement. While in prison his wife died 3 month before he was released. -
Gandhi helps to get India its idenpedence
Gandhi gathered with india's political's and India celebrated its Independence Day on 15th August 1947. -
Great Britain grants India and Pakistan their independence
Calling it the "noblest act of the British nation," Gandhi celebrates India's independence from England. Unfortunately, the celebration does not last when hundreds of thousands of people die as the result of violence between the two relgions. -
, Gandhi carries out another fast.
, Gandhi carried out yet another fast, this time to bring peace to the city of Delhi. -
Gandhi killed.
On 30th January 1948, whilst Gandhi was on his way to a prayer meeting at Birla House in Delhi, Nathuram Godse managed to get close enough to him in the crowd to be able to shoot him three times in the chest, at point-blank range. Gandhi’s dying words were claimed to be oh god. -
Gandhi furneal.
Roughly about 1 million people followed Gandhi’s dead body as it was carried in the state through the streets of the city and cremated on the banks of the holy Jumna River. -
A fast agaist the goverment.
In protest against Government’s decision not to grant all the facilities for Harijan work which he was having previously in Jail.
