Jan Samachar/Mahatama Gandhi:Multilingual News and Feature agency devoted to Rural Issues

Life at a Glance
2 October 1869	Birth at Porbunder in Gujarat
1883	Married with Kasturba
4 September 1888	Left for London to study Law
12 January 1891	Passed the Law examination
10-11 June 1891	Called to the British Bar and enrolled in the High Court
12 June 1891	Set sail for home
6 July 1891	In India, introduced Raychand Bhai (Whom Gandhiji regarded as his Guru)
16 November 1891	Applied for enrollment in the Bombay High Court
24 May 1892	Came to Bombay to start practice in the High Court as Barrister
April 1893	Representing a Porbunder firm set sail for South Africa
June 1893	At Pietermaritzberg station Gandhiji was ordered to go into 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 bundies pitched out after him. He was left to shiver in the waiting room all night.
22 May 1894	Proposed an Organisation to watch the interest of Indians and to oppose colour bar against them in South Africa.
22 August 1894	Founded Natal Indian Congress to fight colour prejudice
3 September 1894	Admitted to Natal Supreme Court despite opposition by Natal Law Society
17October 1899	Out break of Boer War and Gandhiji joined Ambulance Corps
18 October 1901	Started for India assuring to return to South Africa if his service were to be needed
27 December 1901	Moved a resolution on South Africa at Calcutta Congress Session
20 November 1902	At the growing pressure from Indians in South Africa, returned to South Africa
1903	Founded Transvaal British India Association
1 October 1904	Took over entire management responsibility of 'Indian Opinion'
Nov-Dec. 1904	Founded Phoenix settlement
September 1906	Started Passive Resistance Movement
13-22 November 1909	Wrote 'Hind Swaraj' in Gujarati on board S.S. Kildonan Castle on the way to South Africa from London
9 January 1915	Returned to India
25 May 1915	Founded Satyagraha Ashram at Kochrab, Ahmedabad
April 1917	Champaran Stayagraha
1918	Ahmedabad Mill workers & Kheda Peasant Satyagraha
13 April 1919	Massacre at mass meeting at Jalianwala Bagh, Amritsar. Gandhiji implored people to be calm
8 October 1919	First issue of 'young India' under Gandhiji's Editorship
1920-21	Khilafat and Non Co-operation Movements
5 February 1922	Chauri Chaura incident and withdrawal of No Co-operation Movement
10 March 1922	Arrested. On 21 March sent tot Yeravada Jail, Pune. Remained in Jail till March 1924.
17 September 1924	Started 21 day's fast for Hindu-Muslim unity
December 1924	Presided over the Belgaum Congress
December 1928	Attended Calcutta Congress where a draft Constitution of India was adopted on 31 December 1928
December 1929	Gandhiji's resolution on Complete independence was adopted at open session of Lahore Congress along with immediate boycott of legislatures
26 January 1930	Pledge of independence day taken all over India
19 February 1930	All India Congress Committee adopted Civil Disobedience programme
12 March 1930	At 6.30 a.m with 78 Ashramites, Gandhiji started his famous Dandi March to break the Salt Law
4 May 1930	Arrested and taken to Yeravada Jail
26 January 1931	Released from jail
5 March 1931	Gandhi-Irwin pact was announced
29 March 1931	Left for London to attend Round Table Conference
5 December 1931	Decided to restart Non Co-operation Movement
4 January 1932	Started fast against separate electorate for the Harijans
8 May 1933	Started 21 day fast for the improvement of Harijan's condition and was released at 6 p.m. from jail
31 July 1933	Individual Civil Disobedience started
1 August 1933	Arrested and remained in Jail till 23 Aug. 1933
17 September 1934	Stated "I am going to resign from the Congress"
28 October 1934	Declared his intention to retire from Congress
1936	Founded Sevagram Ashram at Wardha
1937	Wardha Scheme of Education
May & Oct-Nov 1938	North West Frontier tours
3 March 1939	Started fast unto death at Rajkot and on settlement of the issue ended fast on 7 March 1939
15 October 1940	Started Anti-war individual Satyagraha with Vinoba as the first Satyagrahi
15 January 1942	'My political successor is Jawaharlal' Gandhiji said
5 March 1942	Cripps Arrives
30 March 1942	The idea of 'Quit India' burst upon Gandhiji
8 March 1942	Addressed All India Congress Committee of Bombay and Quit India resolution was passed
9 August 1942	Arrested and taken to Agakhan Palace- Jail
15 August 1942	Lighted the pyre of Mahadev Desai, his Secretary who died in Jail
10 February 1943	Started fast in Agakhan Palace - Jail
6 May 1944	Ended fast - in Jail
3 March 1943
22 February 1944	At 7.35 p.m Kasturba died. The saree woven from yarn spun by Gandhiji was wrapped round her body
6 May 1944	Released from Jail
March 1945	Cabinet mission
Jan-Jul 1945	Simla Conference
1946	Cabinet plan accepted
10 October 1946	In Noakhali and other districts in East Bengal inhuman atrocities started
6 November 1946	Left Calcutta for Noakhali by a special train.
Jan-Dec 1947	Toured troubled areas of Bengal, Bihar & Delhi
15 August 1947	AT Calcutta, fasted as country was cut into two pieces
13 January 1948	Started fast in Delhi against communal riots
16 January 1948	'I do not wish to live if peace is not established in India and Pakistan'
18 January 1948	Broke fast by taking orange juice from Maulana Azad
20 January 1948	A bomb exploded during prayer
27 January 1948	Wrote that Congress should cease as political body and should devote to people's service
30 January 1948	At 5.17 pm shot dead on his way to evening prayer ground at Birla House, Delhi

Fasts of Mahatma Gandhi
1913 (Phoenix)	Penitential fast for a week for moral lapse of two inmates at the settlement
1914 (Phoenix)	Fourteen days fast for similar reason
1 June 1915	Fasted for a day on detecting untruth among Ashram boys
11 September 1915	Gave up evening meal due to some Ashramites' objection to the admission of a Harijan in the Ashram
15 March 1919	For a rise in the wages of mill workers of Ahmedabad
6 April 1919	First day of the Satyagraha fight
13 April 1919	Began fast for 72 hours for Jalian wala Bagh massacre at Amritsar and disturbances at Bombay and Ahemadabad
19-21 Nov. 1921	Fasted owing to disturbances at Bombay
28 November 1921	Took vow to fast for 24 hours every Monday till Swaraj was won and started it from that day.
12-16 Feb. 1922	Owing to the massacre at Chauri Choura
17 Sept to 7 Oct. 1924	For communal unity
24-30 November 1925	For having detected sexual aberrations in some boys and girls of the Ashram
22-24 June 1928	Owing to moral lapse of an Ashram inmate
20-25 September 1932	In protest against the decision to setup separate electorate for the Harijans
3 December 1932	In protest against Government not allowing a fellow prisoner to do scavenging work
8-29 May 1932	For self purification and of his colleagues
16-22 August 1933	In protest against Government's decision not to grant al the facilities for Harijan work which he was having previously in jail
7-13 August 1934	An irate reformer attacked an opponent of the Harijan upliftment movement with a lathi. Started fast to atone
3-6 March 1939	For the breach of promise by the Rajkot ruler.
12-13 November 1940	Fasted for two days for minor thefts in the Ashram
5-7 May 1941	Because of communal riots in Bombay and Ahmedabad
29 June 1941	For communal unity
10 to 3 March 1943	In protest against Government's propaganda that the responsibility of disturbances after quit India resolution was that of Congress
30 November 1944	Fasted or thought of fasting for one or more days. Details and reason could not be traced
20 October 1946	Probably on account of an error by the person who prepared the fair copy of a letter written during negotiations with the Muslim League
15 August 1947	Against partition of the country
1 to 13 Sept 1947	For communal harmony
11 October	Birth date according to Vikram calendar. Fasted instead of celebrating it.
Arrests & Imprisonments South Africa