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Chronology of Events
Short Chronological Sketch
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2 October, 1869 |
Birth at Porbunder in
Gujarat (Sudamapuri, Kathiawad) |
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1883 |
Married Kasturba |
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4th September, 1888 |
Left for London to
study Law |
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12 January, 1891 |
Passed the Law
examination |
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10-11 June, 1891 |
Called to the British
Bar and enrolled in the High Court |
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12 June, 1891 |
Set sail for home |
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6 July, 1891 |
In India, introduced
to Raychandbhai (Whom Gandhiji regarded as his Guru) |
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16 November, 1891 |
Applied for enrollment
in the Bombay High Court |
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24 May, 1892 |
Came to Bombay to
start practice in the High Court as Barrister |
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April, 1893 |
Representing a
Porbunder firm set sail for South Africa |
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June, 1893 |
At Pietermaritzberg
station Gandhiji was ordered to go into the van compartment of the
train although he held a first class ticket. On his refusal, a
constable was brought and he was forcibly ejected, his bundles
pitched out after him. He was left to shiver in the waiting room all
night. |
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22 May, 1894 |
Proposed an
Organisation to watch the interest of Indians and to oppose colour
bar against them in South Africa. |
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22 August, 1894 |
Founded Natal Indian
Congress to fight colour prejudice |
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3 September, 1894 |
Admitted to Natal
Supreme Court despite opposition by Natal Law Society |
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17 October, 1899 |
Out break of Boer War
and Gandhiji joined Ambulance Corps |
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18 October, 1899 |
Started for India
assuring to return to South Africa in his service were to be needed |
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27 December, 1901 |
Moved a resolution on
South Africa at Calcutta Congress session. |
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20 November, 1902 |
At the growing
pressure from Indians in South Africa, returned to South Africa |
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1903 |
Founded Transvaal
British India Association |
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1 October, 1904 |
Took over entire
management responsibility of ‘Indian Opinion’ |
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Nov.-Dec., 1904 |
Founded Phoenix
settlement |
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September, 1906 |
Started Passive
Resistance Movement |
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13-22November, 1909 |
Wrote ‘Hind Swaraj’ in
Gujarati on board S.S.Kildonan Castle on the way to South Africa
from London |
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9 January, 1915 |
Returned to India |
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25 May, 1915 |
Founded Satyagraha
Ashram at Kochrab, Ahemadabad |
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April, 1917 |
Champaran Satyagraha |
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1918 |
Ahemadabad mill
workers & Kheda Peasant Satyagraha |
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13 April, 1919 |
Massacre at mass
meeting at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Gandhiji implored people to
be calm |
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8 October, 1919 |
First issue of ‘Young
India’ under Gandhiji’s Editorship |
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1920-21 |
Khilafat and
non-Co-operation Movement |
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5 February, 1922 |
Chauri Chaura incident
and withdrawal of Non Co-operation Movement |
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10 March, 1922 |
Arrested. On 21 March
sent to Yervada Jail. Remained in jail till March 1924. |
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17 September, 1924 |
Started 21 days fast
for Hindu-Muslim unity |
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December, 1924 |
Presided over the
Belgaum Congress |
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December, 1928 |
Attended Calcutta
Congress where a draft Constitution of India was adopted on 31
December, 1928 |
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December, 1929 |
Gandhiji’s resolution
on Complete Independence was adopted at open session of Lahore
Congress along with immediate boycott of legislatures. |
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26 January, 1930 |
Pledge of Independence
day taken all over India |
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19 February, 1930 |
All India Congress
Committee adopted Civil Disobedience programme |
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12 March, 1930 |
At 6.30 a.m. with 78
Ashramaties Gandhiji started his famous Dandi March to break the
Salt Law |
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4 May, 1930 |
Arrested and taken to
Yervada jail |
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26 January, 1931 |
Released from Jail |
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5 March, 1931 |
Gandhi-Irwin Pact was
announced |
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29 March, 1931 |
Left for London to
attend Round Table Conference |
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5 December, 1931 |
Decided to restart Non
Co-operation Movement |
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4 January, 1932 |
Started fast against
separate electorate for the Harijans |
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8 May, 1933 |
Started 21 days fast
for the improvement of Harijan’s condition and was released at 6
p.m. from jail |
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31 July, 1933 |
Individual Civil
Disobedience started |
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1 August, 1933 |
Arrested and remained
in Jail till 23 Aug.1933 |
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17 September, 1934 |
Stated “I am going to
resign from the Congress” |
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28 October, 1934 |
Declared his intention
to retire from Congress |
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1936 |
Founded Sevagram
Ashram at Wardha |
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1937 |
Wardha Scheme of
Education |
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May & Oct-Nov, 1938 |
North West Frontier
tours |
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3 March, 1939 |
Started fast unto
death at Rajkot and on settlement of the issue ended fast on 7
March, 1939 |
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15 October, 1940 |
Started Anti-war
individual Satyagraha with Vinoba as the first Satyagrahi |
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15 January, 1942 |
‘My political
successor is Jawaharlal’ Gandhiji said. |
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5 March, 1942 |
Cripps arrives |
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30 March, 1942 |
The idea of ‘Quit
India’ burst upon Gandhiji |
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8 March, 1942 |
Addressed All India
Congress Committee of Bombay and Quit India resolution was passed. |
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9 August, 1942 |
Arrested and taken to
Agakhan Palace-Jail |
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15 August, 1942 |
Lighted the pyre of
Mahadev Desai, his secretary who died in Jail |
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10 February, 1943 |
Started fast in
Agakhan Palace-Jail |
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3 March, 1943 |
Ended fast-in-Jail |
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22 February, 1944 |
At 7.35 p.m. Kasturba
died. The saree woven from yarn spun by Gandhiji was wrapped round
her body |
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6 May, 1944 |
Released from Jail |
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March, 1945 |
Cabinet Mission |
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Jan-July, 1945 |
Simla Conference |
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1946 |
Cabinet plan accepted |
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10 October, 1946 |
In Naokhali and other
districts in East Bengal inhuman atrocities started |
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6 November, 1946 |
Left Calcutta for
Naokhali by a special train |
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Jan-Dec., 1947 |
Toured troubled areas
of Bengal, Bihar & Delhi |
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15 August, 1947 |
At Calcutta, fasted as
country was cut into two pieces |
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13 January, 1948 |
Started fast in Delhi
against communal riots |
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16 January, 1948 |
‘I do not with to live
if peace is not established in India and Pakistan’ |
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18 January, 1948 |
Broke fast by taking
orange juice from Maulana Azad |
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20 January, 1948 |
A bomb exploded during
prayer |
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27 January, 1948 |
Wrote that Congress
should cease as political body & should devote on his way to
evening prayer ground at Birla House, Delhi. |
