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Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Gandhi was born in 1869 on October 2nd in Porbandar, India. -
Reached Durban, Natal.
Gandhi in South Africa. Gandhi arrived in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) in 1893 to serve as legal counsel to a merchant Dada Abdulla. ... As Gandhi refused to comply with the order, a White police officer pushed him out of the train, and his luggage was tossed out on to the platform. -
Thrown off the first class carriage of the train at Pietermartizburg Station.
When Gandhi refused, showing the conductor his first-class ticket, he was evicted unceremoniously from the train. A plaque on the platform marks the approximate spot where he was pushed from the train carriage with his luggage. “This incident changed the course of his life,” it reads -
Commenced writing the 'Green Pamphlet' at Rajkot.
At Rajkot he wrote and issued a “Green Pamphlet“. In this Green Pamphlet, he exposed the conditions of Indian Indentured laborers and Coolies in South Africa. ... The Green Pamphlet was taken by the British as an anti-government publication. When Gandhi again reached Durban, his ship was not allowed to dock for three days -
Established Indian Ambulance Corps during the Boer War.
The Natal Indian Ambulance Corps was created by Mahatma Gandhi for use by the British as stretcher bearers during the Second Boer War, with expenses met by the local Indian community. Gandhi and the corps served at the Battle of Spion Kop. ... This was given up by Gandhi after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919.
