Timeline of Lviv
History of Lviv, Ukraine
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Prior to 18th century
Historical affiliations
Golden Horde c. 1256–1340
∟Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia c. 1256–1340
Kingdom of Poland 1340–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1772
Austria/A-H Empire 1772–1918
West Ukrainian People's Republic 1918
Republic of Poland 1918–1939
Soviet Union 1939–1941 (occupation)
∟Ukrainian SSR 1939–1941
Nazi Germany 1941–1944 (occupation)
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Soviet Union 1944–1991
∟Ukrainian SSR 1944–1991
Ukraine 1991–present
- 1256 - Lviv mentioned in the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle.[1]
- 1272 - Leo I of Galicia relocates Galicia-Volhynia capital to Lviv from Halych (approximate date).[2]
- 1340 - Town taken by forces of Casimir III of Poland.[2][3]
- 1356 - Town rights granted.[1]
- 1362 - High Castle rebuilt.
- 1363 - Armenian church built.[3]
- 1365 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Lwów established.[4]
- 1370 - Latin Cathedral construction begins (approximate date).
- 1387 - 27 September: Petru II of Moldavia paid homage to Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and Queen Jadwiga of Poland making Moldavia a vassal principality of the Kingdom of Poland.[5]
- 1412 - Catholic see established.[6][3]
- 1434 - City becomes capital of the Polish Ruthenian Voivodeship.[1][3]
- 1480 - Latin Cathedral construction completed.[3]
- 1527 - Lviv fire of 1527.[2]
- 1550 - Church of St. Onuphrius built.
- 1556 - Arsenal built.
- 1580 - Korniakt Palace built on Market Square.
- 1582 - Karaite synagogue built.[7]
- 1586 - Ukrainian Lviv Dormition Brotherhood established.[1]
- 1589 - Bandinelli Palace built on Market Square.
- 1593 - Printing press in operation.[8]
- 1596 - Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church founded.[3]
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- 1609 - Golden Rose Synagogue opens.[7]
- 1618 - Hlyniany Gate built.
- 1626 - City becomes seat of Armenian bishopric.[9]
- 1629 - Dormition Church built.
- 1630 - Bernardine Church and Monastery and Church of St. Mary Magdalene consecrated.
- 1648 - City besieged by Cossacks.[10][3]
- 1655 - City besieged by Cossacks again.[3]
- 1656 - Lwów Oath.
- 1661 - Jesuit Lviv University founded.
- 1672 - Siege of Lviv by Turks.[10][3]
- 1675 - Battle of Lwów (1675).
18th–19th centuries
- 1704 - City besieged by forces of Charles XII of Sweden.[11][3]
- 1762 - Greek Catholic St. George's Cathedral built.
- 1771 - 4th Infantry Regiment of the Polish Crown Army stationed in Lwów.[12]
- 1772 - City annexed by Austria in the First Partition of Poland and made the capital of the newly formed Austrian Galicia[6] under the Germanized name Lemberg.
- 1776 - Population: 29,500.[2]
- 1784
- Secular University established.[11]
- Brygidki prison in use.
- 1787 - Lychakiv Cemetery established.
- 1788 - Stauropegion Institute founded.
- 1809
- May: 19th Polish Uhlan Regiment formed in Lwów.[13]
- 27 May-19 June: City taken by forces of Józef Poniatowski.[11][14]
- 1810 - Gazeta Lwowska (1810-1939) newspaper begins publication.
- 1817 - Polish Ossolineum founded.[15]
- 1825 - German designated as official administrative language.[2]
- 1829 - Viennese Cafe in business.[16]
- 1835 - Town Hall[11] and Ivan Franko Park gazebo built.[3]
- 1842 - Skarbek Theatre opens.
- 1844 - Technical Academy established.
- 1846 - Tempel Synagogue built.[17]
- 1848
- 2 November: City "bombarded by the Austrians."[10]
- Galician Dawn newspaper begins publication.
- 1850 - Chamber of Commerce founded.[18]
- 1853
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz invents kerosene lamp.
- Street lighting installed.[citation needed]
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- 1863 - House of Invalids built.[17]
- 1867
- 7 February: Polish Gymnastic Society "Sokół" founded.
- Pravda newspaper begins publication.[1]
- 1868 - Prosvita society founded.[19]
- 1870
- 1873 - Shevchenko Scientific Society founded.[19]
- 1877 - Industrial exhibition held.[2]
- 1878 - Government House built.
- 1880 - Dilo newspaper begins publication.[19]
- 1881
- 1883 - Kurier Lwowski newspaper begins publication.
- 1890 - Population: 128,419.[20]
- 1892 - Lychakivskyi Park laid out.[21]
- 1893 - Grand Hotel built on Svobody Prospect.[21]
- 1894 - Galician Regional Exhibition held.[22]
- 1898
- John III Sobieski Monument erected in Svobody Prospect.[22]
- Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk literary-scientific journal begins publication.[1]
- 1900
- Grand Theatre built.
- Population: 159,618.[3]
20th century
1900–1939
- 1901 - Hotel George opens.[23]
- 1903
- Lechia Lwów founded as the oldest Polish football club.
- Czarni Lwów founded as the second oldest Polish football club.
- 1904
- Railway station opens.
- Pogoń Lwów founded as the third oldest Polish football club.
- 1905 - Lwow Ecclesiastical Museum established.
- 1907 - Galician Music Society building constructed.[17]
- 1908
- 12 April: Politician Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki assassinated.[24]
- Polish History Museum, Lwów established.
- 1909 - Industry and Crafts College built.[17]
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- 1911 - Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth built.
- 1913 - Magnus department store built on Hospital Street, Lviv.[17]
- 1914
- 1915
- 1918
- 1 November: City becomes capital of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic;[1] Battle of Lemberg (1918) begins.
- 21–23 November: Lwów pogrom (1918).
- November: Poles in power.
- 1920 - July–September: Battle of Lwów (1920).
- 1923 - City confirmed as part of Poland per Conference of Ambassadors.[1]
- 1924 - Polish Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów established.[citation needed]
- 1925 - Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue built.
- 1929 - Members of the Lwów School of Mathematics, Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus, establish Studia Mathematica journal.
- 1930 - Area of city: 66 square kilometers.[2]
- 1936
- April 14 - demonstration of unemployed people shot by Polish police. Killed 1 worker V. Kozak.
- April 16 - funeral of the killed worker Kozak, police fights against workers. 46 people killed.
- 1937 - Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów established.
World War II (1939–1945)
- 1939
- 12 September: German forces attack the city. Battle of Lwów (1939) begins.[25][6]
- 18 September: Soviet forces join the German siege of the city.[25]
- 22 September: End of the Battle of Lwów.[6] Soviet occupation begins.
- September: Polish resistance movement established in the city.[26]
- The Soviets carried out deportations of captured Polish POWs to the USSR, mostly to Starobilsk.[25]
- October: Czerwony Sztandar Polish-language communist newspaper begins publication.
- November: City annexed into Soviet Ukraine, and made capital of the newly formed Lviv Oblast.[2]
- 1940
- General Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, leader of the Polish resistance, arrested by the NKVD.[27]
- April–May: Many Polish defenders of the city murdered in the Katyn massacre by the Soviets.[25]
- 19–20 November: The Soviets sentenced 14 leaders of the local branch of the Union of Armed Struggle Polish resistance organization to death.[26]
- Union of Soviet Architects branch and Ukrainian State Institute of Urban Planning branch organized.[28]
- 1941
- 24 February: 13 leaders of the Union of Armed Struggle executed by the Soviets following their sentencing in November 1940.[26]
- 22–30 June: Battle of Lwów (1941).
- 30 June: German occupation begins.[6]
- June–July: Lviv pogroms (1941).
- July: Massacre of Lwów professors.
- 26 July: Execution of pre-war Prime Minister of Poland Kazimierz Bartel by the Germans.
- 1 August: City made capital of the newly formed District of Galicia within the General Government of occupied Poland.
- 3 August: Stalag 328 prisoner-of-war camp established by the Germans.[29]
- September: Janowska concentration camp begins operating.
- 8 November: Lwów Ghetto is established.
- 1942 - Local branch of the Żegota underground Polish resistance organization established to rescue Jews from the Holocaust.[30]
- 1943
- 1944
- 1 February: Stalag 328 POW camp converted into the Oflag 76 POW camp for officers.[31]
- 9 May: Oflag 76 POW camp dissolved.[31]
- 23–27 July: Polish Lwów Uprising against German occupation.
- 27 July: German occupation ends; city re-occupied by the Soviet Union.[6]
- December: Expulsion of Poles from Lviv begins.[32]
- Central State Historical Archive of the Ukrainian SSR in Lviv established.[33]
- 1945 - City annexed from Poland by the Soviet Union, and renamed to Lviv.
1945–2000
- 1945 – Lviv Bus Factory built.
- 1952
- 1957 - Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsia Institute established.[34]
- 1958 - Polish People's Theatre established.[32]
- 1963
- Football Club Karpaty Lviv formed.
- Ukraina Stadium opens.
- 1965 - Population: 496,000.[35]
- 1966 - Pharmacy Museum opens.
- 1970
- 1979 - Population: 665,065.[37]
- 1985 - Population: 742,000.[38]
- 1987
- 1989
- Dead Rooster musical group formed.
- Population: 786,903.[37]
- 1990
- Vyvykh festival festival begins.
- Vasyl Shpitser becomes mayor.
- Gazeta Lwowska Polish-language magazine begins publication.
- Russian Cultural Centre opens.
- Area of city: 90 square kilometers.[2]
- 1991
- City becomes part of independent Ukraine.[2]
- Chervona Ruta (festival) of music held.
- Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum founded.
- 1992
- 1993 - Znesinnia Regional Landscape Park established.
- 1994 - Vasyl Kuybida becomes mayor.
- 1996 - Lviv Suburban railway station built.
- 1998 - Old Town (Lviv) designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
21st century
- 2001 - Population: 725,202.[37]
- 2002
- 27 July: Air show disaster occurs near city.
- Ukrainian Catholic University established.[34]
- 2004 - Center for Urban History of East Central Europe founded.
- 2006 - Andriy Sadovyi becomes mayor.
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- 2008 - Etnovyr folklore festival and Wiz-Art film festival begin.
- 2009 - Pogoń Lwów football club re-established.
- 2011 - Arena Lviv opens.
- 2012 - June: Some UEFA Euro 2012 football games played in Lviv.
- 2014
- January: 2014 Euromaidan regional state administration occupation.[41]
- February: 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
- 2018 - Population: 720,105 (estimate).[42]
- 2022 - Russian missile attack on the city.
See also
- History of Lviv
- Other names of Lviv (Lemberg, Lwów, etc.)
- List of mayors of Lviv
