1869
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born in Porbandar, Gujarat, India
1883
- Gandhi marries KasturbaiMakhanji in an arranged child marriage
1888
- He travels to London to train as a barrister
1891
- He returns to India from London after passing the Bar
1893
- He travels to South Africa to work under a year-long contract with Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian firm
1893
- Gandhi experiences racism when ejected from a South Africantrain. This motivates him to fight for Indian rights in the British Colony
1894
He establishes the Natal Indian Congress
1896
- He becomes an established political leader in South Africa
1899
- He organizes an Indian ambulance corps of 1100 men during his service in the Boer War
1906
- He organizes stretcher-bearer corps that serves during the Zulu uprising
- Gandhi introduces the non-violent protest philosophy of Satyagraha
1908
- Gandhi is arrested for the first time, for refusing to carry an obligatory id card in South Africa
1913
- Gandhi begins "Great March" to gain Indian rights in South Africa
1914
Gandhi returns to India where he becomes leader of the Indian National Congress. 1914
1919
- The British government passes the Rowlatt Act in colonial India, indefinitely extending the use of 'emergency measures'
1920
- The Gandhi era of the Indian independence movement begins with the Non-Cooperation Movement
1922
- A Nationalist mob sets fire to a police station, prompting Gandhi to call off the Non-Cooperation Movement
- Gandhi is arrested by the British Government on charges of inciting violence
1924
- Gandhi is released from prison after serving only two years of a six-year sentence following surgery for appendicitis
- Gandhi begins twenty-one day fast in an attempt to reconcile Hindus and Muslims
1929
- The Indian National Congress raises the tricolour flag of India
- Declaration of the independence of India
1930
- In order to help free India from British control, Gandhi proposed a non-violent march protesting the British salt tax
- Gandhi arrives at Dandi, Gujarat, concluding the salt march
1931
- Ghandi is released from prison
- Gandhi signs an agreement with Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, which includes the discontinuation of the civil disobedience movement by the Indian National Congress the removal of the tax salt
1934
- Gandhi announces retirement from politics to focus on village economics
1942
- Gandhi is arrested after refusing to support Britain during WW2 unless India is given immediate independence
1944
- Gandhi is released from prison
1947
- India gains independence from Britain
- India is partitioned into two separate states: India and Pakistan
1948
- Gandhi announces fast to end Hindu/Muslim violence in Delhi
- Gandhi is assassinatedÂ