Timeline: A closer look at Gandhi's major accomplishments

Gandhi is born in Porbandar, a city in the Gujarat province of northwestern India.

May 1883: Gandhi is married, at age 13, to 14-year-old Kasturba Makhanji in an arranged union.

September 1888-June 1891: Gandhi travels to the United Kingdom to study law at University College, London.

1891: Gandhi returns to India with his law degree, where he struggles to establish a legal practice.

1893: Gandhi accepts a job as a lawyer in South Africa, where he’s subjected to discrimination. In May, he’s kicked out of a first-class train…

1893-1914: Gandhi continues to live in South Africa, where he works to improve the rights of immigrant Indians. Develops his civil rights cree…

Gandhi returns to India as a leading Indian nationalist and organizer, becoming a leader of the Indian National Congress party in the years to come.

Gandhi launches his first satyagraha campaign in India, for the rights of peasants on indigo plantations. With his strategy of nonviolent prot…

1918: Gandhi holds his first three-day fast in India, to improve conditions for striking mill workers in Ahmedabad.

Arrested for subversion for his actions, which included calling for noncooperation with British rule and boycotting British goods. He’s senten…

Gandhi launches the 24-day Salt March in protest of the tax on salt and laws barring Indians from collecting or selling salt themselves.

Gandhi launches his last satyagraha campaign, “Quit India.” The nonviolent protest calls for the immediate withdrawal of British troops from India.

Gandhi begins a four-month walk to quell communal rioting in Calcutta as a result of the Direct Action Day on Aug. 16.

India celebrates independence from British rule. Gandhi opposes the partition of the territory along religious lines into a predominantly Hind…

Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu extremist Nathuram Godse, who shot him three times at close range with a pistol. His funeral is a…