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- 1904: Foundation of Indian Opinion (magazine) and Phoenix Farm, at Phoenix, near Durban.
- 1906: First Civil Disobedience Movement (Satyagraha) against Asiatic Ordinance in Transvaal.
- 1908: Trial and imprisonment-Johannesburg Jail (First Jail Term).
- 1914: Awarded Kaisar-i-Hind for raising an Indian Ambulance Corps during Boer wars.
- 1916: Attended Lucknow session of INC held in 26–30 December, 1916, where Raj Kumar Shukla, a cultivator from Bihar, requested him to come to Champaran.
- 1917: Champaran campaign to redress grievances of the cultivators oppressed by Indigo planter of Bihar (April 1917). Champaran Satyagraha was his first Civil Disobedience Movement in India.
- 1918: Gandhi launched the struggle in Ahmedabad which involved industrial workers. Hunger strike was used for the first time by Gandhi during Ahmedabad struggle.
- 1918: Gandhi worked for peasants of Kheda in Gujarat who were facing difficulties in paying the rent owing to failure of crops. Kheda Satyagraha was his first Non Cooperation Movement.
- 1919: Gandhi returned Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal as a protest against Jallianwala Bagh massacre-April 13, 1919.
- 1922: Gandhi calls off Non Cooperation Movement, after the violent incident at Chauri-Chaura on February 5, 1922. Non-Cooperation Movement was the First mass based politics under Gandhi.
- 1930: Gandhi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement with his Dandi March/Salt Satyagraha.
- 1931: Gandhi attends the Second Round Table Conference in London as sole representative of the Congress: September 7 - December. 1, 1931.
- 1942: Call to Quit India Movement for which Gandhi raised the slogan, ‘Do or Die’ (Either free India or die in the attempt).
- 1942: Gandhi kept in detention at the Aga Khan Palace, near Pune (August, 1942 - May, 1944). This was Gandhi’s last prison term.
- 1948: Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse, a member of RSS, while on his way to the evening prayer meeting at Birla House, New Delhi (January 30, 1948).
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