Gandhi's Life in a Flash

By bregray
  • Gandhi is born

    Gandhi is born in Porbandar, a small state in Western India
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    Gandhi's Life

  • Gandhi gets married

    Gandhi gets married
    When he was 13 he was married to 14-year-old Kasturbai Makhanji
  • Gandhi goes to London

    Gandhi travelled to London, England to study law at University College London
  • Gandhi Accepts in April 1893

    He accepted a year-long contract from Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian firm, to a post in the Colony of Natal, South Africa, then part of the British Empire
  • Gandhi Helps in 1894

    Gandhi helped find found the Natal Indian Congress
  • Gandhi Writes

    Gandhi Writes
    Gandhi wrote in the Indian Opinion of his time in a South African prison
  • Gandhi Returns in 1915

    Gandhi returned from South Africa to live in India
  • War Conference

    During the later part of WWI, the Viceroy invited Gandhi to a War Conference in Delhi
  • Gandhi is a Leader

    Gandhi was invested with executive authority on behalf of the National Indian Congress. Under his leadership, the Congress was recognized with a new constitution, with the goal of Swaraj
  • Gandhi gets Arrested

    Gandhi arrested for sedition and sentenced to 6 years in prison
  • Gandhi is Released

    Gandhi is released for an appendicitis operstion, having only served 2 years in prison
  • Independence Day

    Independence Day
    Celebrated as India's Independence Day by the National Congress meeting in Lahore
  • 21-Day Fast

    21-Day Fast
    Gandhi began a 21-day fast of self-purification to help the Harijan movement
  • A Resolution is Passed

    While the Indian National Congress and Gandhi called for the British to quit India, the Muslim League passed a resolution for them to divide and quit
  • Gandhi Dies

    Gandhi Dies
    Gandhi was shot by Nathuram Godse while he was walking to a platform which he was to adderess a prayer meeting