Chronology : Years of Fasts of Mahatma Gandhi

Back Chronology / Time Line Chronicle showing where Gandhi was on his birthday from 1915 to 1947. [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 at Porbunder]
2^nd October, 1915	Ahmedabad
2^nd October, 1916	Ahmedabad
2^nd October, 1917	Ranchi
2^nd October, 1918	Ahmedabad - Gandhiji not well, had a severe attack of dysentery. He wrote letter to Harilal & Devdas.
2^nd October, 1919	Bombay - Gandhiji attended reception at Vanita Vishram Hall of Bhagini Samaj and received purse containing Rs. 20,100. Addressed meeting of Muslim students in evening. Telegraphed to Viceroy to decide early removal of ban on Gandhi's entry to Punjab.
2^nd October, 1920	Bombay - attended A.I.C.C. It was decided to collect Tilak Swaraj Fund.
2^nd October, 1921	Bombay - At Mani Bhavan, wrote in Navajivan on "My Loin-cloth". Sent on his birthday a message on swadeshi to the Bhagini Samaj, Bombay.
2^nd October, 1922	Yervada Jail
2^nd October, 1923	Yervada Jail
2^nd October, 1924	Delhi - Was observing 21 days' fast as a penance for communal riots.
2^nd October, 1925	Bhagalpur - Addressed women at Public meeting.
2^nd October, 1926	Ahmedabad - Muriel Lester called in.
2^nd October, 1927	Virudhunagar - gave interviews to Rev. J. Himmer-strand and Non-Brahmin Youth League. Spoke at public meeting.
2^nd October, 1928	Ahmedabad
2^nd October, 1929	Gazipur - Addressed by Municipality.
2^nd October, 1930	Yervada Jail
2^nd October, 1931	London - Give interview to the Jewish Chronicle. Talked to Henry Carter on prohibition. Independent Labour Party, Indian National Congress, League and the Gandhi Society arranged a birthday luncheon for Gandhiji at Westminster Palace rooms. At Minorities Conference, London, Gandhiji opposed special representation to Depressed Classes. Spoke at women’s reception arranged by Women’s Indian Association at Central Y.M.C.A., London. The Vegetarian Society of Norway elected Gandhi as honorary member.
2^nd October, 1932	Yervada Jail - K. Kelappan broke his fast in the morning. Gandhiji issued statement to the Press on temple-entry.
2^nd October, 1933	Wardha
2^nd October, 1934	Wardha - "As it is not possible for me to send individual acknowledgements to the many senders of telegraphic and other messages on my 66th birthday from several parts of the world, I beg publicly to tender my thanks to all the senders of their good wishes".- Gandhi's message was published in Bombay Chronicle, 7-10-34.
2^nd October, 1935	Wardha - Gandhiji’s sixty-seventh birthday celebrated. Italy invaded Abyssinia.
2^nd October, 1936	Seagaon
2^nd October, 1937	Seagaon - On his 69th birthday Gandhiji sent message to Friends of India Society, London.
2^nd October, 1938	Delhi - On Oct.1, Friends of Indian Society, London, suggested Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi for Nobel Prize.
2^nd October, 1939	Delhi - Alighted Nizam-ud-din Station. Put up at Birla House; discussion with Rajendra Prasad and Jawaharlal Nehru before their meeting with Viceroy.
2^nd October, 1940	Wardha - Spoke before Gram Sudhar Samiti. Sevagram - Students of Mahila Ashram in Wardha came to wish long life..
2^nd October, 1941	Sevagram - Mahila Ashram presented Dhoti woven by themselves.
2^nd October, 1942	Agakhan Palace - Jail: Jail Superintendent Kateli brought garland and 74 rupees. Took little ice-cream prepared out of goat's milk. Few days earlier on Sept. 26, 1942, he took ice cream for the first time after 30 years. It was Sarojini Naidu's birthday.
2^nd October, 1943	Agakhan Palace Jail - (Last birthday with Kasturba; she died on February 22,1944.)
2^nd October, 1944	Sevagram - Birthday greetings poured in: one from George Bernard Shaw. Gandhiji addressed Kasturba National Memorial Trust meeting; received purse of Rs. 80 lakhs.
2^nd October, 1945	Poona
2^nd October, 1946	Delhi - Discussion with Nawab of Bhopal.
2^nd October, 1947	Delhi - On his 78th birthday when advised by doctors to take penicillin, declared that Ramanama was his sole remedy. This was Gandhi's last birthday. He was assassinated on Jan. 30, 1948.

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