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Old Major's Speech
Old Major tells the animals about a strange dream he had the other night. He talks about how humans are making their lives miserable and how the animals should take the barn for themselves since they are the ones doing the labor. Old Major sings "Beasts of England" to the other animals. -
Old Major's death
Old Major passes away in his sleep three days after his speech. -
Animalism is created
Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer turned Old Majors speech into a system of thought. These three taught the principles of the system to the other animals several times a week. The system was called "Animalism". -
Rebellion
Farmer Jones went out to drink and forgot about feeding the animals. When he came back to the farm the animals broke out of their stalls and fought the humans occupying the farm. The animals drove out the farmers and took the farm for themslves. -
The 7 Commandments
Snowball writes the 7 Commandments all animals must follow. -
First Harvest
The animals receive a good harvest. The pigs supervised and the other animals tended to the crops. -
Rumors of Animal Farm
Snowball and Napoleon sent pigeons to tell other farms out the rebellion and the song "Beasts of Engand". -
Battle of Cowshed
Farmer Jones and other farmers try to take back the farm, but are driving off by the animals. -
Mollie runs away
After Clover confronts Mollie about seeing her with a human she runs away from animal farm. -
Snowball is chased out
During the debate about the Windmill, Napoleon uses nine dogs to chase Snowball out of Animal Farm. Napoleon later decides to build the windmill and claim that the windmill was his idea in the first place. -
Trade with Foxwood
Snowball trades his crops for materials and money, communicating through Whymper. -
Pigs move into Farmhouse
The pigs change the 4th commandment so that they can sleep on the beds in the farmhouse. -
Windmill falls
The wind knocks down the windmill but Napoleon blames Snowball for the incident -
Death Pebalty
Napoleon kills the animals that confess to helping Snowball since he was evicted from the Farm. -
No more "Beast of England"
Squealer told the animals that they now were not aloud to sing "Beasts of England" because the rebellion was over. -
Leader Napoleon
Napoleon was gaining more power. He was now refereed to as leader Napoleon and didn't come out of the house often. -
Attack on Animal Farm by Fredrick
15 men with guns invaded Animal farm and kill many animals as well as blowing up the windmill. -
Rations
The rations were all cut except for the Dogs and Pigs. -
Boxer is sent to Willingdon Hospital
Boxer is injured and sent to be killed for money but Napoleon tells the other animals that he is being treated by doctors at Willingdon. -
Years past
Many of the animals from the time of the Rebellion are dead. Retiring isn't a choice. Almost none of the new animals know what it was like before. -
Four legs good, Two legs better
The pigs practice standing on two legs and tell the sheep to say "Four legs good, Two legs better". -
One and only Commandment
The commandments are erased and only one remained, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
Later that evening the pigs are seen with the humans, and the other animals can't tell the difference between pig or man.