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The birth
Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869, at Porbandar, a small town on the western coast of India, which was then one of the many tiny states in Kathiawar. -
Married young
Mahatma married his wife at a young age he was only 13 and she was 14 -
Law in London
Gandhi studies law in London. While there he meets playwright George Bernard Shaw and social reformer Annie Besant, among other notable figures. He is introduced to the Bible and to the Bhagavad-Gita, which he reads for the first time in its English translation by Sir Edwin Arnold. -
First kid
Mohandas Gandhi was only 18 when his first son was born, and Harilal was six months old when his father left his family in South Africa in September 1888 to train as a barrister in London -
Called to the bar
After passing his examinations, Gandhiji was called to the Bar on 10th June, 1891 and was enrolled in the High Court of England the next day. A day after this, he sailed home to India. After his return to India, Mahatma Gandhi started a practice as a lawyer in Bombay. -
Durban
It was from Durban Station that Gandhi embarked on the fateful train journey that, in later years, he regarded as having changed the course of his life. He boarded a train at the Durban Station on 7 June 1893 in order to travel to Pretoria, where he was due to meet with Dada Abdullah's legal advisers. -
Kick of the train
He forcibly removed from a whites-only carriage on a train in Pietermaritzburg, for not obeying laws that segregated each carriage according to race. -
Took the vow of Brahmcharya
he embraced Brahmacharya, which includes complete abstinence from sexual relationships. He talked about his decision to his wife, and he writes that she had no objection -
The death
He was shot 3 time during a pray meeting sometime around 5 -
Cremated
Cremated on the banks of the Yamuna by Ramdas.