Timeline of Lviv

The following is a timeline of the history of the city 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)
∟ General Government 1941–1944
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 [ru].^[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]

17th-century view of the city

• 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) [pl] 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 [uk] newspaper begins publication.
• 1850 - Chamber of Commerce founded.^[18]
• 1853
  • Ignacy Łukasiewicz invents kerosene lamp.
  • Street lighting installed.^{[citation needed]}

Lwów in the 1860s

• 1863 - House of Invalids [uk] built.^[17]
• 1867
  • 7 February: Polish Gymnastic Society "Sokół" founded.
  • Pravda newspaper begins publication.^[1]
• 1868 - Prosvita society founded.^[19]
• 1870
  • City self-government in effect.^[2]
  • Population: 87,105.^[10]
• 1873 - Shevchenko Scientific Society founded.^[19]
• 1877 - Industrial exhibition held.^[2]
• 1878 - Government House built.
• 1880 - Dilo newspaper begins publication.^[19]
• 1881
  • Ridna Shkola Society [uk] founded.^[1]
  • Galician Regional Diet building constructed.^[17]
• 1883 - Kurier Lwowski [pl] newspaper begins publication.
• 1890 - Population: 128,419.^[20]
• 1892 - Lychakivskyi Park laid out.^[21]
• 1893 - Grand Hotel built on Svobody Prospect [uk].^[21]
• 1894 - Galician Regional Exhibition [uk] held.^[22]
• 1898
  • John III Sobieski Monument erected in Svobody Prospect [uk].^[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 [pl] established.
• 1909 - Industry and Crafts College built.^[17]

Early 20th-century view of the Market Square

• 1911 - Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth built.
• 1913 - Magnus department store built on Hospital Street, Lviv [uk].^[17]
• 1914
  • 26 August-1 September: German-Russian conflict.^[6]
  • September: Russian occupation begins.^[9]
• 1915
  • May: Austrians in power.
  • 3–22 June: German-Russian conflict.^[6]
  • July: Russian occupation ends.^[9]
• 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)

Aerial view of the city center during World War II

• 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 [ru] 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
  • January: Stalag 328 POW camp relocated to Drohobycz.^[29]
  • November: Stalag 328 POW camp relocated from Drohobycz back to Lwów.^[29]
• 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 [pl] begins.^[32]
  • Central State Historical Archive of the Ukrainian SSR in Lviv [uk] established.^[33]
• 1945 - City annexed from Poland by the Soviet Union, and renamed to Lviv.

1945–2000

• 1945 – Lviv Bus Factory built.
• 1952
  • Lenin statue erected.^[21][28]
  • Hill of Glory [uk] monument^[32] and Bohdan Khmelnytsky Culture and Recreation Park [uk] built.^[28]
• 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
  • Ukraïnskyi visnyk magazine begins publication.^[36]
  • Population: 553,452.^[37]
• 1979 - Population: 665,065.^[37]
• 1985 - Population: 742,000.^[38]
• 1987
  • Lion Society formed.^[39]
  • Levshan-zillia magazine begins publication.^[36]
• 1989
  • Dead Rooster musical group formed.
  • Population: 786,903.^[37]
• 1990
  • Vyvykh festival [uk] festival begins.
  • Vasyl Shpitser [uk] 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
  • September: Chrysler Imperial rock opera performed.^[40]
  • Ekspres newspaper begins publication.
  • Austrian Library opens.^[34]
  • Radio Lwów [pl] begins broadcasting.
• 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.

Fire at a fuel depot after Russian shelling in 2022

• 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