Mahatma Gandhi's Life
July 31, 1907
The Boer Republic Transvaal, now under the control of the British, attempts to register all Indians as members; Gandhi and others refuse to register. Their resistance efforts mark the first use of nonviolent non-cooperation by the Indian minority in South Africa, soon called satyagraha, or "soul-force."
March 12-April 6, 1930
Gandhi leads his Salt March to the sea
Autumn 1931
Gandhi participates in the Round Table Conference in Britain
June 10, 1891
Gandhi passes the bar exam in England
January 26, 1930
Gandhi publishes the Declaration of Independence of India
March 1922-January 1924
Gandhi remains in prison
January 9, 1915
Gandhi returns home to India, and receives a hero's welcome
December 28, 1931
Gandhi returns to India
1901
Gandhi returns to India to attend the Indian National Congress
Spring 1896
Gandhi returns to India to collect his wife and children
December 1896
Gandhi returns to S.A w/ his family
July 18, 1914
Gandhi sails to England
1901-1906
Gandhi struggles toward Brahmacharya, or celibacy, finally ending his sexual activity in 1906
1909
Gandhi travels to London, pushing for rights of South African Indians. The Transvaal registration law is repealed
1935
Government of India Act passes British Parliament and is implemented in India; it is the first movement toward independence
August-December 1948
India dissolves into chaos and killings, as Hindus and Muslims flee for the borders of India and Pakistan
August 15, 1947
Indian independence becomes official, as does the partition into two countries, India and Pakistan
Nov 13, 1913
Indians in Natal and Transvaal, under Gandhi's leadership, march peacefully in protest of a racist poll tax and marriage laws. The marches continue through the winter
January 1931
British government yields to protests, releases all prisoners, invites a Congress representative to Britain for a Round Table Conference (the Congress asks Gandhi to be this representative)
August 1942
Congress leaders are arrested; Gandhi is imprisoned in the Aga Khan's palace
1885
Death of Gandhi's father
February 22, 1944
Death of Kasturbai
1925
Despite his long absence from politics, Gandhi becomes President of the Indian National Congress
Summer 1944
Gandhi visits Muhammed Ali Jinnah in Bombay, but is unable to work out an agreement that will keep India whole
October 10, 1908
Gandhi is arrested again, spends a month in jail
January 11, 1908
Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to two months in prison
March 10, 1922
Gandhi is arrested for sedition
January 4, 1932
Gandhi is arrested for sedition, and held without a trial
March 2, 1930
Gandhi warns the Viceroy of his intention to break the Salt Laws
May 5, 1930
Gandhi is arrested for violating the Salt Laws; non-cooperation movements break out across India
April 13, 1919
Amritsar Massacre; Under General Dyer, British troops slaughter Indian protesters
Oct 2, 1869
Birth of Mohandas Karamehand Gandhi
1883
Gandhi & Kasturbai are married
April 1893
Gandhi accepts commission to spend a year in South Africa advising on a lawsuit
June 30, 1914
Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests
May 25, 1915
Gandhi and his followers found Satyagraha ashram, the religiously-oriented communal farm where Gandhi, his family, and his followers will live
August 1914
Gandhi arrives in England, just at the outbreak of World War I(1914-1918)
1924-1928
Gandhi avoids politics, focusing his writings on the improvement of India
1934-38
Gandhi avoids politics, travels in rural India
August 1, 1920
Gandhi calls for a period of non-cooperation across India
Spring 1894
Gandhi elects to stay on S.A, and founds the Natal India Congress
1891-1893
Gandhi fails as a lawyer in India
Sept 20-25, 1932
Gandhi fasts in prison to protest the treatment of untouchables
February 10 to March 2, 1943
Gandhi fasts while imprisoned, to protest British rule
Sept 4, 1888
Gandhi goes to England to study law
January 30, 1948
Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist
1904
Nationalists found the magazine the India Opinion, and soon print it on Gandhi's farm, the "Phoenix Settlement"
April 6, 1919
Nationalists hold a hartal, or day of fasting and prayer, in protest of the Rowlatt Act, which drastically curtails civil liberties in India
October 1899
Outbreak of Boer War (1899-19010 in S.A
February-August 1928
Residents in the district of Bardoli protest high rents using methods of non-cooperation inspired by Gandhi
August 8, 1942
The Indian National Congress rejects the Cripps proposal, and declares it will grant its support for the British war effort only in return for independence
September 1939
World War II begins, lasting until 1945