* 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi ends a 241 mile march to Dandi in the Salt Satyagraha.

Each civilization is led by a famous historical figure, such as Mahatma Gandhi for Indians.

Mahatma Gandhi was deeply influenced ( particularly through the guidance of Shrimad Rajchandra ) by Jain tenets such as peaceful, protective living and honesty, and made them an integral part of his own philosophy.

On 30 January 1948, Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was shot while he was walking to a platform from which he was to address a prayer meeting.

There was no greater prince of peace and apostle of non-violence than Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, whom we have lost, but yet, he said it was better to take the sword than to surrender, fail or run away.

Mohandas Karamchand GandhiGandhism is the collection of inspirations, principles, beliefs and philosophy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( known as Mahatma Gandhi ), who was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian Independence Movement.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( pronounced: ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948 ), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India.

Mahatma Gandhi spinning yarn, in late 1920

Raj Ghat and other memorials | Raj Ghat, Delhi is a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi that marks the spot of his cremation.

* 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is 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.

* 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

On his first trip to England in 1931 he traveled on the Rajputana, the same ship that was carrying Mahatma Gandhi, who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.

* 1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

* Henry David Thoreau: Influential American thinker on such diverse later political positions and topics such as pacifism, anarchism, environmentalism and civil disobedience who influenced later important political activists such as Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.

Satyagraha ( ) is a philosophy and practice of nonviolent resistance developed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( also known as " Mahatma " Gandhi ).

The International Gandhi Peace Prize, named after Mahatma Gandhi, is awarded annually by the Government of India.

Certain national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti ( birthdate of Mahatma Gandhi ) are meant to be dry days nationally.

Rajiv Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi, although they share the same surname.

Mahatma Gandhi said, " I hope this temple, which will serve as a cosmopolitan platform for people of all religions, castes, and creeds including Harijans, will go a great way in promoting religious unity, peace, and love in the country.

Mahatma Gandhi is said to have sung it over a hundred times when he was imprisoned at Yerawada Jail in Pune in the 1930s.

The new name was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi who said “ India is not to be found in its few cities but in the 700, 000 villages .”

In contrast, Mahatma M. said: “ We are leaders but not child-nurses .”

Mahatma Gandhi said, " This is the right place for our activities to carry on the search for truth and develop fearlessness, for on one side are the iron bolts of the foreigners, and on the other the thunderbolts of Mother Nature.

Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, " The greatest omission in our 106 year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize.

Gandhi's great grandson Tushar Gandhi said a ban of the book would be a " greater insult " to Gandhi than that book or the author might have intended, saying, " How does it matter if the Mahatma was straight, gay or bisexual?

The hymn is popular across many denominations, and was said to be a favourite of King George V and Mahatma Gandhi.

One of the most influential was Mahatma Gandhi's movement to free his native India from British rule.

* March 2 – Mahatma Gandhi informs the British viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin 9 days later.

* March 12 – Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt ; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.

* April 5 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.

Mahatma Gandhi outlined several rules for civil resisters ( or satyagrahi ) in the time when he was leading India in the struggle for Independence from the British Empire.

Nathuram Vinayak Godse ( 19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949 ), was the sole assassin of Mahatma Gandhi — the pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India and apostle of non-violence — shooting Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range on 30 January 1948 in New Delhi.

Addressing the forum at its concluding session, he praised the WSF for demanding freedom in its most comprehensive form, and was happy that people had assembled under an important idea, rather than for narrow political ends ; after reflecting on corporations displacing governments in various countries, and on how Mahatma Gandhi had fought British colonisers non-violently with the strength of the masses, he predicted that vocal masses the world over would successfully fight by non-violent means the capturing of the world's resources by a few corporations in the name of globalisation.

On 8 August 1942, Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech at Gowalia Tank in Mumbai, demanding that the British leave India.

The period of the Second World War saw the peak of the campaigns by the Quit India movement ( led by " Mahatma " Gandhi ) and the Indian National Army ( INA ) movement ( led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ) and others, eventually resulting in the withdrawal of the British.

Here certain movements particularly influenced by a philosophy of nonviolence should be mentioned, including Mahatma Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947, Martin Luther King's and James Bevel's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in the struggle to win civil rights for African Americans, and César Chávez's campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California.

A notable example of civil resistance or satyagraha (" satya " in sanskrit means " truth and compassion ", " agraha " means " firmness of will ") involved Mahatma Gandhi making salt in India when that act was prohibited by a British statute, in order to create moral pressure for law reform.

When Mahatma Gandhi organized the Dandi march in 1930, Rajaji broke the salt laws at Vedaranyam near Nagapattinam along with Indian independence activist Sardar Vedaratnam and was afterwards imprisoned by the British.

Charan Singh followed Mahatma Gandhi in non-violent struggle for independence from the British Government, and was imprisoned several times.

He continued in that position for the next twenty-one years providing academic and managerial leadership to an institution that was intimately involved with India's struggle for freedom from the British Rule and experimented with value-based education on the lines advocated by Mahatma Gandhi and Hakim Ajmal Khan.

In April 1930, Mahatma Gandhi gave a call far ' Satyagraha ' against the British Government.

In the Middle East he is called the Arab Gandhi because he was teaching the power of nonviolence similar to Mahatma Gandhi in India during the British Raj.

* 5 April-In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.

Gowalia Tank Maidan ( now also known as August Kranti Maidan ) is a park in central Mumbai where Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech on 8 August 1942 decreeing that the British must leave India immediately or else mass agitations would take place.

In his school days he was drawn at first to Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, but later felt that such movements were unresponsive to the needs of the poor and that non-cooperation with the British was ineffective.

Savitribai Phule was a social reformer who along with her husband, Mahatma Jotiba Phule played an important role in improving women's rights in India during the British Rule.

" Boyle further stated that " Native Hawaiians operate in accordance with the Aloha spirit, which is similar to Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha force, and I take the position that if Gandhi can throw the mighty British Empire out of India with Satyagraha, Native Hawaiians can throw the mighty American empire out of Hawaii with Aloha.

Mahatma Gandhi led at least 100, 000 people on the " Dandi March " or " Salt Satyagraha ", in which protesters made their own salt from the sea, which was illegal under British rule, as it avoided paying the " salt tax ".