Timeline animal farm by

old majors speech

912203_1 — 2025-05-06 18:58:25 UTC

Old Major had his speech telling all the animals to be comrades and unite together to rebel. This is important because it starts the whole reason and the start of the revolution with the rest of the story.

The 7 Commandments made

912203_1 — 2025-05-07 18:57:52 UTC

These are the 7 commandments that the pigs wrote to keep order in the farm and to set rules for the farm. This is important because it sets rules for the animals as well as starts some of the plot of the story, with the commandments being very important to the animals.

Animals rebel againjst humans

912203_1 — 2025-05-07 18:58:01 UTC

The animals rebel against Jones and kick him off the farm. This is important because it starts the whole story, puts the pigs in charge, and starts the manipulation of the characters.

Pigs become the leaders

912203_1 — 2025-05-07 18:58:10 UTC

The pigs become the leaders of animal farm. This is important because it starts the pigs taking over power that results in corruption of the pigs minds and them manipulating the animals.

Big fight with animals and humans

912203_1 — 2025-05-07 18:58:32 UTC

The humans and the animals on Animal farm have a war. This is important because they are fighting with the humans even though they have no weapons but their own strength. and they won the battle, showing how strong they are.

the dumb down for sheep (“Four legs good, two legs bad”)

912203_1 — 2025-05-07 18:58:47 UTC

The pigs have to dumb down the 7 commandments because they can't remember them. This is important because it shows how propaganda can spread fast and be repeated very quickly once learned.

Beasts of England is spreading

912203_1 — 2025-05-07 19:00:03 UTC

The animals start to spread the Beasts of England song. This is important because it starts to captivate the other animals on other farms to stand up for themselves.

Snowball gets chased out by dogs, and Napoleon becomes the new leader

2025-05-07 19:00:26 UTC

Snowball gets chased out by Napoleon's trained dogs, and he becomes the new leader of the animal farm. This is important because Snowball was trying to help Animal Farm, but Napoleon just wanted to be in control and dosent wanna help the animals, so he turns into a greedy person that is like Mr Jones.

Animals are being killed by Napoleon's dogs

2025-05-07 19:00:56 UTC

Napoleon commands his trained dogs to kill any animal that is "helping snowball". This is important because they have a commandment that says "no animal shall kill one another," but they do anyways and changes to rules once again.

Making of the windmill

912203_1 — 2025-05-07 19:01:02 UTC

The animals make the windmill. This is important because it shows their hard work paying off but also in the allegory part of it it shows the people in power overworking the working class during the Russian revolution.

Windmill blown up by humans

2025-05-07 19:01:31 UTC

The humans blow up the windmill on Animal farm as to try to brake them down. This is important because the animals had just make the windmill and the don't have the resources now to make it from the old one. Which leads to boxer working too hard when he's old.

Pigs start to drink

2025-05-07 19:01:51 UTC

The pigs are drinking alcohol, and they are starting to make it a habit. This is important because one of the commandments is that they cannot drink alcohol, and they are ignoring it, and eventually end up changing the commandment.

Squealer changes the commandments

2025-05-07 19:02:02 UTC

Squealer changed the commandments without telling the other animals on the farm. This is important because the pigs are doing things that are against what Old Major warned about.

Boxer gets taken

2025-05-07 19:02:17 UTC

Boxer is extremely sick from his wound that he got in the war. This is important because he was a main animal that helped with all the building of the windmill day and night but now he's gone because he's too "old".

The animals saw the pigs walking on two legs

2025-05-07 19:02:28 UTC

The animals see the pigs walk on two legs. This is important because they said "four legs good, two legs bad," but now they are acting like humans even more. Then changed it to "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".

Pigs meeting with the humans

2025-05-07 19:02:39 UTC

The pigs and humans have a meeting while they drink. This is important because they were fighting with the humans because they were hurting them and now they are drinking with them and see them as allies.