📅 18 Maart 1919
The Imperial Legislative Council passed the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act despite opposition from Indian members. The measure extended wartime emergency powers, including detention without...
📅 6 April 1919
Gandhi called for a nationwide hartal against the Rowlatt Act, bringing shops, workplaces, students, and public meetings into a new form of mass anticolonial protest. The day marked a shift from elite...
📅 1 Augustus 1920
Gandhi and the Indian National Congress launched non-cooperation, urging people to surrender colonial titles, leave government posts, boycott foreign goods, and build Indian institutions. The campaign...
📅 12 Maart 1930
Gandhi and a group of volunteers set out from Sabarmati toward the Arabian Sea to defy the colonial salt monopoly. Salt taxation burdened ordinary households and made a visible focus for mass protest....
📅 5 Maart 1931
The pact between Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin suspended the civil disobedience campaign and released many political prisoners in exchange for Congress participation in a London conference. It...
📅 8 Augustus 1942
The All-India Congress Committee adopted the Quit India resolution in Bombay, calling for British withdrawal and mass nonviolent resistance. The colonial government immediately arrested Gandhi and...
📅 15 Augustus 1947
India became an independent dominion at the end of British rule. Independence followed decades of mass movements, labor and peasant organizing, and political negotiation, as well as India’s large...
📅 12 Maart 1930
Mahatma Gandhi and 78 volunteers left Sabarmati Ashram for the coastal village of Dandi to challenge the British salt tax and monopoly. The march turned an everyday necessity into a mass...
