Keeping in mind that not all historical dates are perfectly in line with the sequence in the book.
Animal Farm VS. History
A brief timeline for Comparison
1848
FEBRUARY
Karl Marx creates the "Communist Manifesto".
Old Major calls a meeting
- Explains the concept of Animalism
- Acknowledges his near death
1917
NOVEMBER
Start of October Revolution
Battle of the Cowshed
- Animals band together and kick out Jones
- Beginning of Animalism's implementation
Lenin presents the April Thesis
Napoleon creates and paints the SEVEN COMMANDMENTS OF ANIMALISM
1924
Death of Vladmir Lenin
Death of Old Major
Beginning of struggle between Stalin and Trotsky
- Pigs take higher positions in farm
- Snowball is self-appointed leader and begins implementing old majors theory of Animalism
- Napoleon openly opposes Snowball
1929
Leon Trotsky is exiled from the Soviet Union.
Snowball is chased away by Napoleon's dogs.
Star of Industrialization
Animals begin the construction of the windmill.