Mohandas Gandhi


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1869 - October 2, Mohandas Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India

1876 - Gandhi moves with his family to Rajkot, India


1883 - Gandhi gets married at the age of thirteen to Kasturba Makanji          

 

1888 - Gandhi sails to England so that he can study law

 

1891 - Gandhi returns to India and begins to practice law

 

1893 - Gandhi accepts a job in South Africa

 

1903 - Gandhi decides to open a law office in Johannesberg, South Africa

 

1906 - Gandhi organizes his first protest against anti-Indian laws in South Africa 

 

1908 - Gandhi is imprisoned in South Africa

 

1915 - Gandhi returns to India

 

1922 - After a big trial, Gandhi is sentenced to six years in jail

 

1930 - Gandhi has to go to jail for breaking India's Salt Laws

 

1932 - Gandhi fasts to protest treatment of Untouchables

 

1934 - He launches the All Indian Village Industries Association

 

1942 - Gandhi begins the nationwide "Quit India" movement

 

1944 - Gandhi's wife dies at age seventy-four

 

1947 - India gets its independence from the British

 

1948 - On January 30, Gandhi is killed at a prayer meeting in Dehli

" (Rida, 1).

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