• July 15, 2007:   The United nations passed a resolution on this day to observe the Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary as the 'INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NON-VIOLENCE'.
• October 02:   His birthday is observed and celebrated as 'GANDHI JAYANTI' and  'INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NON-VIOLENCE'. A National holiday in India.
• January 30:   It is observed as Martyrs' Day in India.
• June 07, 1893:   He was thrown off the train in South Africa, despite holding a valid ticket, for his refusal to vacate the first class compartment in terms of the then prevailing racial seggregation rules.
  • Apr 26, 1903:   He started his legal practice in Transvall High Court in South Africa and established British Indian Association there.
  • September 11, 1906:   On this day, the Father of the Indian nation, Mahatma Gandhi, coined the term 'Satyagraha' to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.       
  • November 06, 1913:   He was arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.  
  • January 09, 1915:   He landed in Bombay on his return from South Africa, where he had launched his first Civil Disobedience Movement.
  • March 10, 1919:   The Rowlatt Act was passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in London on this day, indefinitely extending "emergency measures" (of the Defence of India Regulations Act) enacted during the First World War in order to control public unrest and root out conspiracy in India.
  • March 18, 1919:   The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, 1919, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act, was a legislative act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on this day, indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, incarceration without trial and judicial review.
  • March 30, 1919:   Gandhi ji started satyagraha to protest against the Rowlatt Act, passed by the British. The Act restricted the freedom of expression and strengthened police powers. Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and others strongly opposed this Act.
  • April 16, 1919:   He organized a day of "prayer and fasting" on this day in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar (Jallianwala Bagh) massacre on April 13, 1919 by the British.
  • March 10, 1922:   He was arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
  • December 31, 1929:   On this day, he led the Congress members in Lahore to take vow for SWARAJ, i.e. full independence. Jawaharlal Nehru hoisted the tricolour on the banks of Ravi river in Lahore as a mark for the demand for the poorna swaraj.
  • March 12, 1930:   Dandi March, a.k.a. Salt Satyagraha started; Mahatma Gandhi set off on the  Dandi march, a 240-mile long protest journey to defy the British law relating to their  monopoly in producing salt. This day also marked the beginning of the first phase of civil  disobedience  movement.
  • April 06, 1930:   Dandi March ended.
  • March 04, 1931:   He met the British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, to sign an agreement envisaging: (i) the release of political prisoners and (ii) allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population Father of the Nation of India.
  • March 05, 1931:   Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, which was focussed on free use of salt by the poorest of Indians and release of political prisoners. It was signed before the second Round Table Conference to be held in London. This day also marked the end of the first phase of Civil Disobdience Movement.
  • December 28, 1931:   He returned from London after the deadlock in the second Round Table Conference. Thereafter he launched the second phase of the Civil Disobedience Movement. The Indian National Congress was declared illegal.
  • January 04, 1932:   On this day, he was arrested and imprisoned without trial.
  • September 20-26, 1932:   He began a 6-day fast in protest against British oppression in India. As a result of the first fast, the British Government withdrew the clauses in the Communal Award against which Gandhi was protesting.
  • December 03, 1932:   He kept a 1-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
  • January 04, 1933:   This day was celebrated as Civil Disobedience Day all over India.
  • May-08, 1933:   He began a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India. It was his third Anti-Untouchability Fast: for the improvement of Harijans' condition.
  • March 05, 1940:   On this day, Segaon, a village in Maharashtra, was formally renamed as Sewagram by Mahatma Gandhi. Sevagram was the place of Mohandas Gandhi's (Gandhiji's) ashram and his residence from 1936 to his death in 1948.   
  • 1942:   He led the masses in demanding the British to immediately Quit India in 1942, during World War II.
  • August 08, 1942:   He issued the Quit India speech at Gowalia Tank in Mumbai, demanding that the British leave India.
  • August 09, 1942:   On this day, he was arrested in Bombay by British forces, while launching the Quit India Movement.
  • February 12, 1948:   His ashes were taken for immersion in the Triveni at Allahabad by train.

• He was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in Porbandar, coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London.
• Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.
• He became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed.
• A lifelong opponent of communalism (i.e. politics based on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups.
• He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from British domination.
• He practised non-violence and truth in all situations, and advocated that others do the same.
• His chief political enemy in Britain was Winston Churchill, who ridiculed him as a "half-naked fakir."
• In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan.
• The honorific Mahatma means "Great Soul".
• In India he was also called Bapu, which means "Father".
• Gandhi's philosophy was not theoretical but one of pragmatism, that is, practicing his principles in real time.
• Asked to give a message to the people, he would respond, "My life is my message".

• He is regarded as the Father of the Nation of India
• World-wide he is considered as an apostle of non-violence

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