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Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

17 dated entries naming Mahatma Gandhi, drawn from 12 separate years between 1867 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.

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19th century

  • 1867November 9 – Shrimad Rajchandra, prominent Indian Jain philosopher, scholar, poet & spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1901)source
  • 1869October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)source

20th century

  • 1901April 9 – Shrimad Rajchandra, Indian Jain philosopher, scholar and poet, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1867)source
  • 1906September 11 – Mahatma Gandhi coins the term Satyagraha, to characterize the nonviolence movement in South Africa.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1930March 2 – Mahatma Gandhi informs the British Viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week.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
  • 1933July 4 – Gandhi is sentenced to prison in India.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
  • 1949November 15 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.source

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