This is a timeline of events in the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his birth in 1869 to his death in 1948. A leader of the Indian independence movement, Gandhi was a revolutionary who inspired non-violent resistance to British colonial rule. Includes the Indian Independence Movement, the Amritsar Massacre, the Salt March, the 1942 Quit India Movement, 1947 Indian Independence, The Partition, and Gandhi's 1948 assassination.