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Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

46 dated entries naming Mahatma Gandhi, drawn from 26 separate years between 1869 CE and 1949 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1869October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (died 1948)source
  • 1888September 4 – Mohandas Gandhi embarks on the SS Clyde from Bombay for London.source
  • 1891January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi passes the Bar examination in England.source
  • 1893May 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban.source
  • 1893May 23 – Gandhi arrives in South Africa, where he will live until 1914, lead non-violent protests on behalf of Indian immigrants in the South African Republic (Transvaal), and develop a deeper experience of such activities.source
  • 1894August 22 – The Natal Indian Congress is founded by Mahatma Gandhi.source
  • 1896June 5 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay.source
  • 1896December 18 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrives back in Durban with his wife and two sons, but the ship is placed under a 5-day quarantine because Bombay was declared a plague-infected port. Quarantine will later be extended to 13 January 1897.source

20th century

  • 1901Mahatma Gandhi embarks at Durban for Mauritius en route to Bombay.source
  • 1902Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban from Bombay.source
  • 1903Mahatma Gandhi enrolls to the Bar of the Transvaal Supreme Court.source
  • 1906September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha, to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.source
  • 1908January 30 – Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison by Jan Smuts after having been tried and sentenced to 2 months in prison earlier in the month.source
  • 1909February 25 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce a registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.source
  • 1913November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested, while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.source
  • 19136 November – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.source
  • 1914July 18 – Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for the last time, sailing out of Cape Town for England, on board the S.S. Kinfauns Castle.source
  • 1914July 18 – Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for the last time, sailing out of Cape Town for England on board the SS Kinfauns Castle.source
  • 1914December 19 – Mohandas Gandhi leaves England, sailing for India on this date (accompanied by his wife Kasturba). He begins to learn the Bengali language whilst on board.source
  • 1920September 5 – Mahatma Gandhi launches the non-cooperation movement in India, with the goal of obtaining independence from British rulesource
  • 1922March 10 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.source
  • 1922March 18 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).source
  • 192218 March – Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition. He would serve only two years.source
  • 1924February – Mohandas Gandhi is released prematurely on medical grounds.source
  • 192417 September - 21 days long fasting by Mahatma Gandhi for Hindu - Muslim unity.source
  • 1930March 2 – Mahatma Gandhi informs the British Viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week.source
  • 1930March 12 – Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest against the British monopoly on salt in India; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.source
  • 1930April 6 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks the salt laws of British India by making salt by the sea at the end of the Salt March.source
  • 19306 April – In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and taking salt.source
  • 1931January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India.source
  • 1931March 5 – The British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi sign the Gandhi–Irwin Pact.source
  • 1931September 7 – The Second Round Table Conference on the constitutional future of India opens in London; Mahatma Gandhi represents the Indian National Congress.source
  • 1932January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.source
  • 1932September 20 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike in Poona prison, India.source
  • 193220 September – Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in Poona prison.source
  • 1933May 8 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes in India.source
  • 19338 May – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes.source
  • 1933July 4 – Gandhi is sentenced to prison in India.source
  • 193425 February - Mahatma Gandhi visits Udupi.source
  • 1942August 9 – Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay, by British forces.source
  • 1943February 10–March 3 – Mohandas Gandhi (under arrest by forces of the British Raj in Pune as a member of the Quit India Movement) keeps a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.source
  • 194310 February – 3 March – Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.source
  • 1948January 12 – Mahatma Gandhi begins his fast-unto-death in Delhi, to stop communal violence during the Partition of India.source
  • 1948January 30 – Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is shot by Nathuram Godse in New Delhi.source
  • 1948January 30 – Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, (assassinated) (born 1869)source
  • 1949November 15 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.source

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