Mahatma Gandhi
Indian lawyer who developed satyagraha in South Africa, led the independence campaigns against British rule and was shot in 1948.
PersonAlso known as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Bapu
2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948
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- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born in Porbandar2 Oct 1869
- Childhood in Porbandar and Rajkot2 Oct 1869
- Married at thirteen to Kasturbai Makhanji1883
- Sails from Bombay to study law4 Sep 1888
- A law student in London29 Sep 1888
- Called to the bar at the Inner Temple10 Jun 1891
- Tongue-tied in a Bombay court1892
- South AfricaMay 1893
- Thrown off the train at Pietermaritzburg7 Jun 1893
- The Natal Indian Congress is founded22 Aug 1894
- Attacked by a mob in Durban13 Jan 1897
- Stretcher-bearers at Spion Kop24 Jan 1900
- Phoenix Settlement, after a night with Ruskin1904
- Stretcher-bearers in the Bambatha rebellionJun 1906
- Satyagraha in the Transvaal11 Sep 1906
- The oath at the Empire Theatre11 Sep 1906
- First prison sentence10 Jan 1908
- Registration certificates burned at the Hamidia Mosque16 Aug 1908
- Hind Swaraj, written at seaNov 1909
- Tolstoy Farm30 May 1910
- The Great March into the Transvaal6 Nov 1913
- The Gandhi–Smuts agreement30 Jun 1914
- Home to Bombay9 Jan 1915
- Champaran: defying an order to leave18 Apr 1917
- The Sabarmati ashram17 Jun 1917
- His first public fast, for Ahmedabad’s mill workers15 Mar 1918
- Kheda: peasants refuse to pay the land tax22 Mar 1918
- A national strike against the Rowlatt Acts6 Apr 1919
- The Amritsar massacre13 Apr 1919
- Non-cooperation1 Aug 1920
- Takes to the loincloth at Madurai22 Sep 1921
- Chauri Chaura4 Feb 1922
- Prisoner in YerwadaMar 1922
- The Great Trial18 Mar 1922
- Twenty-one days’ fast for Hindu–Muslim unity17 Sep 1924
- The Salt March12 Mar 1930
- A lump of salt at Dandi6 Apr 1930
- Beatings at the Dharasana salt works21 May 1930
- The Gandhi–Irwin Pact5 Mar 1931
- The second Round Table Conference, London7 Sep 1931
- With the mill workers of Darwen26 Sep 1931
- Fast unto death against separate electorates20 Sep 1932
- The Poona Pact24 Sep 1932
- Settles at Sevagram30 Apr 1936
- Annihilation of Caste, and Gandhi’s reply18 Jul 1936
- “Quit India”: Do or Die8 Aug 1942
- Detained in the Aga Khan Palace9 Aug 1942
- A twenty-one-day fast in detention10 Feb 1943
- Kasturba dies in detention22 Feb 1944
- Walking through Noakhali7 Nov 1946
