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Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born October the 2nd, 1869, in Porbandar which was a coastal town in the Bombay Presidency in British goverened India. -
Mahatma Gandhi get's married
Mahatma Gandhi marries Kastrubai Makhanji at the age of 14, kicking off a 62 year marraige, -
Death of Gandhi's father.
Gandhi's father died the same year Gandhi had his first son, that also died -
Studying Law
Gandhi in 1888 travelled to London, England, to study law at the University College London to become an English Barrister. -
The Death of Gandhi's Mother
Ganhi's mother died in 1891, and Gandhi was notified, and then he left straight for India from England. -
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Struggle for equality in South Africa
Indians and Colored people in South Africa were forced to carry around an ID card and weren't treated the same as whites. Through non-violent protests, Gandhi has achieved basic equality in South Africa for colored people, and now has departed back for his homeland in India. -
Mahatma Gandhi thrown of a train.
Mahatma Gandhi was thrown of a train because he was in the first class, even though he paid for the ticket, Indians and colored people weren't allowed to sit in the higher up classes. This happened in Pietermaritzburg. -
Gandhi proves that Indians can be manly too.
Gandhi has proved to the English and the South Africans that Indians can be manly too, by creating an ambulance group that backed up the South Africans in the "Boer" wars, helping the Indians critically for independence. -
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The struggle for independence from England.
Using the same non-violent tacticts he used in South Africa, Gandhi leads the fight for independence for India. This includes many beatings, arrests, jail time, and even a massacre, without any retailation from Gandhi. He's even went on two extreme fasts. Finally, a year before Gandhi dies, he get's independence from England. -
Non-Cooperation Movement
This movement is a protest against British made clothing and indirectly, british imposed Tax. Gandhi started to weave his own clothes instead of purchasing them. -
The Salt March
Gandhi led a Salt March as a campain of tax resistant and it is a non violent protest, but the Indian police beat the indians when then the march was over. -
Fast unto death.
In September, while still in jail, Gandhi begins a "fast unto death" to improve the status of the Untouchable caste. The fast ends after six days when the British Government accepts a settlement agreement between the Untouchables and higher caste Indians. -
Fast for the untouchables
In April Gandhi fasts for 21 days to again focus attention on the plight of the Untouchables. He is released from jail during this fast but rearrested with his wife and 30 followers on 31 July after commencing a new "individual" civil disobedience campaign and sentenced to a year in jail. -
Quit India movement
Gandhi gets arrested, and that starts the Quit India movement where India refuses to partake in the war, or help the English at all, to show them that they are serious about Independence. -
Assasination of Mahatama Gandhi
Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting. The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi guilty of favouring Pakistan and strongly opposed the doctrine of nonviolence.
