|
1908 |
First Satyagraha
campaign: Registration forms burned |
|
1910 |
Expansion
of the Tolstoi Farm close to Johannesburg |
|
1913 |
Marriage
laws introduced |
|
|
Satyagraha
March in protest to the marriage law and the three pound tax |
|
1914 |
Discrimination
laws lifted - journey to Britain - return to India |
|
1915 |
The
creation of his own Ashram |
|
1918 |
Montford
program of reforms |
|
1919 |
Amritsar
Massacre |
|
1920 |
Gandhi becomes leader
of the Congress Party/INC (until 1934) |
|
|
Non-cooperation
campaign - general strike: Gandhi is sentenced to six years imprisonment |
|
1924 |
Gandhi
is released early from prison because of his deteriorating health |
|
|
Spinning
wheel campaign |
|
1925 |
Autobiography
"My Experiments with Truth" is published |
|
1930 |
"Salt
march" from Ahmedabad to Dandi |
|
1931 |
Gandhi
begins to stand up for India's untouchables - those without a caste |
|
1939 |
Call
for a boycott in the equipping and participation in the Second World War |
|
1942 |
Japanese
conquer Rangun in Burma |
|
|
"Quit India
campaign" |
|
|
Imprisoned
again. Kasturbai dies during his term in prison |
|
|
Gandhi
is released because of his poor health |
|
1947 |
Partition
of British-run India into Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India |
|
|
Independence
for both states (15th August) |
|
|
Gandhi fasts until
the unrest among the religious groups caused by the partition comes to
an end |
|
1948 |
Bomb attack on Gandhi
(20th January) |
|
|
Gandhi is shot by a
Hindi fanatic New Delhi (30th January) |
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