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Mahatma Gandhi

  • Birth

    Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • Gandhi and Kasturbai are married.

  • Death of Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhi's father

  • Gandhi leaves for England to study law.

  • Gandhi passes the bar exam in England.

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

  • Gandhi elects to stay on South Africa, and founds the Natal Indian Congress.

  • ·Gandhi returns to India to collect his wife and children.

  • Gandhi returns to South Africa with his family.

  • Gandhi decides to open a law office in Johannesberg,South Africa

  • Gandhi organizes his first protest against anti-Indian laws in South Africa

  • Gandhi is imprisoned in South Africa

  • Gandhi returns to India

  • After a big trial, Gandhi is sentenced to six years in jail

  • Gandhi has to go to jail for breaking India's Salt Laws

  • Gandhi fasts to protest treatment of Untouchables

  • ghandi launches the All Indian Village Industries Association

  • Gandhi begins the nationwide "Quit India" movement

  • Gandhi's wife dies at age seventy-four

  • India gets its independence from the British

  • On January 30, Gandhi is killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli