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Mohands Gandhi, commonly known as Mohatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar, Bombay Presidency, British India.
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Gandhi married 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji. It was an arranged child marrage, and in the process, he lost a year of school.
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Gandhi's first child was born, though died a few days later. His father, Karamchand Gandhi, also died that same year.
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Gandhi travelled to London, England, to study law at University College London, where he studied Indian law and jurisprudence and to train as a barrister at the Inner Temple. He actively tried to adopt English cultures, such as dance lessons and food. Though, he was turned away by many of the bland traditions.
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Ghandi was called to the bar exam. He passed the exam. He then returned to India, where he had learned his mother died while he was in London. His family hid this informaton from him.
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Gandhi travels to South Africa and estabolishes the Natal Indian Congress. He organised the Indian population of South Africa into a unified political force.
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Ghandi assembles an ambulance corps of twenty Indians in responce to the outbreak of the Boer War (1899-1901). These Indians would carry stretchers to carry wounded British soldiers in battle. As a result, Gandhi made it so that Indians would gain full citizenship in Africa.
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Gandhi returnes to India and attends the Indian National Congress, where he is first introduced to the other nationalist leaders.
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Gandhi leads the Indians, in India, to peacefully refuse to register to the Boer Republic Transvaal. Ghandi, as his first time, is thrown in jail for two months.
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Ghandi travels to London to fight for rights for South African Indians. Also, the The Transvaal registration law is repealed.
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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.
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Gandhi and Smuts, the Prime Minister of the Transvaal, reach an agreement, ending the protests. Later, Gandhi returns to India, and is given a hero's welcome.
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Gandhi and his followers create the Satyagraha ashram, where he, his family, and his followers will live.
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Under the command of General Dyre, British troops slaughter hundreds of Indians in Amritsar. As a result a period of non-cooperation with India, headed by Gandhi, is put into play. Several months later, Gandhi is arrested and stays in jail for a period of time.
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Gandhi remains in jail and avoids polotics alltogether. Instead, he writes books focuing on the improvement of India.
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Gandhi is elected head of Indian Natonal Congress, despite his ling absence from polotics.
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Gandhi publishes The Declaration of Independence of India.
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The British government yields to protests by the Indians, they release all prisoners, and invite a Congress representative to Britain for a Round Table Conference (the Congress asks Gandhi to be this representative). It is held in Autumn, and Gandhi attends.
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Gandhi leads The Salt March to the sea, walking over 200 miles with many other Indians.
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Gandhi is thrown in jail for breaking Salt Laws.
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Gandhi is thrown in jail for sedition without a trial. During this time, he fasts to protest the treatment of the Untouchables.
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Gandhi avoids polotics and does a lot of traveling in rural India.
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The Government of India Act passes British Parliament and is implemented in India; it is marked as the first movement toward independence.
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Sir Stafford Cripps arrives in India, presenting to the Indian National Congress a proposal for Dominion status (autonomy within the British Commonwealth) after the War.
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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. Congress leaders are arrested and Gandhi is imprisoned in Aga Kahn's palace
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Gandhi visits Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the leader of The Muslim League, in Bombay, and tries to work out an agreement to keep India whole. He was not able to reach agreement.
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The British Cabinet Mission publishes a proposal for an Indian state. Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League reject the proposal.
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Indians gain independence, and separate country of Pakistan is formed.
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Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Vinayuk Godse, a Hindu nationalist. He believed Gandhi was showing Muslims too much 'sympathy'.
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India dissolves into chaos and killings, as Hindus and Muslims flee for the borders of India and Pakistan.
