Events of Civil Disobedience
1817 July 12- Birth of Henry David Thoreau
1846 July 24- Thoreau commits first act of Civil Disobedience by refusing to pay taxes
1848 February 2- Mexico gains independence
1849- "Resistance to Civil Government" published
1862 May 6- Death of Henry David Thoreau
1866- Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience published, nearly four years after his death
1869 October 2- Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Porbandar
1929 January 15- Birth of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia
1930 March 12- Beginning of Salt March in Ashram Ahmedabad led by Gandhi
1930 April 5- Ending of the Salt March, Gandhi reached the coast of Dandi
1947 August 15- India's Independence Day
1948 January 30- Gandhi assassinated at age 78 by Nathuram Godse, a fellow Hindu
1955 December 1- Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to a white passenger
1956 December 20- Buses desegregated in Montgomery, Alabama
1963 April 4-May 2- Birmingham March occurs successfully
1963 August 28- King recited his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial
1968 April 4- King assassinated at age 39 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee
1846 July 24- Thoreau commits first act of Civil Disobedience by refusing to pay taxes
1848 February 2- Mexico gains independence
1849- "Resistance to Civil Government" published
1862 May 6- Death of Henry David Thoreau
1866- Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience published, nearly four years after his death
1869 October 2- Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Porbandar
1929 January 15- Birth of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia
1930 March 12- Beginning of Salt March in Ashram Ahmedabad led by Gandhi
1930 April 5- Ending of the Salt March, Gandhi reached the coast of Dandi
1947 August 15- India's Independence Day
1948 January 30- Gandhi assassinated at age 78 by Nathuram Godse, a fellow Hindu
1955 December 1- Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up bus seat to a white passenger
1956 December 20- Buses desegregated in Montgomery, Alabama
1963 April 4-May 2- Birmingham March occurs successfully
1963 August 28- King recited his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial
1968 April 4- King assassinated at age 39 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee
