Timeline of Lviv

The following is a of the history of the city of Lviv, Ukraine.

Prior to 18th century

1256 - Lviv mentioned in the GalicianÃ¢ÂÂVolhynian Chronicle.
1272 - Leo I of Galicia relocates Galicia-Volhynia capital to Lviv from Halych (approximate date).
1340 - Town taken by forces of Casimir III of Poland.
1356 - Town rights granted.
1362 - High Castle rebuilt.
1363 - Armenian church built.
1365 - Roman Catholic Diocese of LwÃÂ³w established.
1370 - Latin Cathedral construction begins (approximate date).
1387 - 27 September: Petru II of Moldavia paid homage to Polish King WÃÂadysÃÂaw II JagieÃÂÃÂo and Queen Jadwiga of Poland making Moldavia a vassal principality of the Kingdom of Poland.
1412 - Catholic see established.
1434 - City becomes capital of the Polish Ruthenian Voivodeship.
1480 - Latin Cathedral construction completed.
1527 - .
1550 - Church of St. Onuphrius built.
1556 - Arsenal built.
1580 - Korniakt Palace built on Market Square.
1582 - Karaite synagogue built.
1586 - Ukrainian Lviv Dormition Brotherhood established.
1589 - Bandinelli Palace built on Market Square.
1593 - Printing press in operation.
1596 - Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church founded.

1609 - Golden Rose Synagogue opens.
1618 - Hlyniany Gate built.
1626 - City becomes seat of Armenian bishopric.
1629 - Dormition Church built.
1630 - Bernardine Church and Monastery and Church of St. Mary Magdalene consecrated.
1648 - City besieged by Cossacks.
1655 - City besieged by Cossacks again.
1656 - LwÃÂ³w Oath.
1661 - Jesuit Lviv University founded.
1672 - Siege of Lviv by Turks.
1675 - Battle of LwÃÂ³w (1675).

18thÃ¢ÂÂ19th centuries

1704 - City besieged by forces of Charles XII of Sweden.
1762 - Greek Catholic St. George's Cathedral built.
1771 - 4th Infantry Regiment of the Polish Crown Army stationed in LwÃÂ³w.
1772 - City annexed by Austria in the First Partition of Poland and made the capital of the newly formed Austrian Galicia under the Germanized name Lemberg.
1776 - Population: 29,500.
1784
Secular University established.
Brygidki prison in use.
1787 - Lychakiv Cemetery established.
1788 - Stauropegion Institute founded.
1809
May: 19th Polish Uhlan Regiment formed in LwÃÂ³w.
27 May-19 June: City taken by forces of JÃÂ³zef Poniatowski.
1810 - ' newspaper begins publication.

1817 - Polish Ossolineum founded.

1825 - German designated as official administrative language.

1829 - Viennese Cafe in business.

1835 - Town Hall and Ivan Franko Park gazebo built.

1842 - Skarbek Theatre opens.

1844 - Technical Academy established.

1846 - Tempel Synagogue built.

1848

2 November: City "bombarded by the Austrians."

' newspaper begins publication.
1850 - Chamber of Commerce founded.
1853
Ignacy ÃÂukasiewicz invents kerosene lamp.
Street lighting installed.

1863 - built.
1867
7 February: Polish Gymnastic Society "SokÃÂ³ÃÂ" founded.
Pravda newspaper begins publication.
1868 - Prosvita society founded.
1870
City self-government in effect.
Population: 87,105.
1873 - Shevchenko Scientific Society founded.
1877 - Industrial exhibition held.
1878 - Government House built.
1880 - Dilo newspaper begins publication.
1881
founded.
Galician Regional Diet building constructed.
1883 - ' newspaper begins publication.

1890 - Population: 128,419.

1892 - Lychakivskyi Park laid out.

1893 - Grand Hotel built on .

1894 - held.

1898

John III Sobieski Monument erected in .

Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk literary-scientific journal begins publication.

1900

Grand Theatre built.

Population: 159,618.

20th century

1900Ã¢ÂÂ1939

1901 - Hotel George opens.

1903

Lechia LwÃÂ³w founded as the oldest Polish football club.

Czarni LwÃÂ³w founded as the second oldest Polish football club.

1904

Railway station opens.

PogoÃÂ LwÃÂ³w founded as the third oldest Polish football club.

1905 - Lwow Ecclesiastical Museum established.

1907 - Galician Music Society building constructed.

1908

12 April: Politician Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki assassinated.

established.

1909 - Industry and Crafts College built.

1911 - Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth built.

1913 - Magnus department store built on .

1914

26 August-1 September: German-Russian conflict.

September: Russian occupation begins.

1915

May: Austrians in power.

3Ã¢ÂÂ22 June: German-Russian conflict.

July: Russian occupation ends.

1918

1 November: City becomes capital of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic; Battle of Lemberg (1918) begins.

21Ã¢ÂÂ23 November: LwÃÂ³w pogrom (1918).

November: Poles in power.

1920 - JulyÃ¢ÂÂSeptember: Battle of LwÃÂ³w (1920).

1923 - City confirmed as part of Poland per Conference of Ambassadors.

1924 - Polish Cemetery of the Defenders of LwÃÂ³w established.

1925 - Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue built.

1929 - Members of the LwÃÂ³w School of Mathematics, Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus, establish Studia Mathematica journal.

1930 - Area of city: 66 square kilometers.

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 LwÃÂ³w established.

World War II (1939Ã¢ÂÂ1945)

1939

12 September: German forces attack the city. Battle of LwÃÂ³w (1939) begins.

18 September: Soviet forces join the German siege of the city.

22 September: End of the Battle of LwÃÂ³w. Soviet occupation begins.

September: Polish resistance movement established in the city.

The Soviets carried out deportations of captured Polish POWs to the USSR, mostly to Starobilsk.

October: Czerwony Sztandar Polish-language communist newspaper begins publication.

November: City annexed into Soviet Ukraine, and made capital of the newly formed Lviv Oblast.

1940

General MichaÃÂ Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, leader of the Polish resistance, arrested by the NKVD.

AprilÃ¢ÂÂMay: Many Polish defenders of the city murdered in the Katyn massacre by the Soviets.

19Ã¢ÂÂ20 November: The Soviets sentenced 14 leaders of the local branch of the Union of Armed Struggle Polish resistance organization to death.

branch and Ukrainian State Institute of Urban Planning branch organized.

1941

24 February: 13 leaders of the Union of Armed Struggle executed by the Soviets following their sentencing in November 1940.

22Ã¢ÂÂ30 June: Battle of LwÃÂ³w (1941).

30 June: German occupation begins.

JuneÃ¢ÂÂJuly: Lviv pogroms (1941).

July: Massacre of LwÃÂ³w 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.

September: Janowska concentration camp begins operating.

8 November: LwÃÂ³w Ghetto is established.

1942 - Local branch of the ÃÂ»egota underground Polish resistance organization established to rescue Jews from the Holocaust.

1943

January: Stalag 328 POW camp relocated to Drohobycz.

November: Stalag 328 POW camp relocated from Drohobycz back to LwÃÂ³w.

1944

1 February: Stalag 328 POW camp converted into the Oflag 76 POW camp for officers.

9 May: Oflag 76 POW camp dissolved.

23Ã¢ÂÂ27 July: Polish LwÃÂ³w Uprising against German occupation.

27 July: German occupation ends; city re-occupied by the Soviet Union.

December: begins.

established.

1945 - City annexed from Poland by the Soviet Union, and renamed to Lviv.

1945Ã¢ÂÂ2000

1945 Ã¢ÂÂ Lviv Bus Factory built.

1952

Lenin statue erected.

monument and built.

1957 - Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsia Institute established.

1958 - Polish People's Theatre established.

1963

Football Club Karpaty Lviv formed.

Ukraina Stadium opens.

1965 - Population: 496,000.

1966 - Pharmacy Museum opens.

1970

UkraÃÂ¯nskyi visnyk magazine begins publication.

Population: 553,452.

1979 - Population: 665,065.

1985 - Population: 742,000.

1987

Lion Society formed.

Levshan-zillia magazine begins publication.

1989

Dead Rooster musical group formed.

Population: 786,903.

1990

festival begins.

becomes mayor.

Gazeta Lwowska Polish-language magazine begins publication.

Russian Cultural Centre opens.

Area of city: 90 square kilometers.

1991

City becomes part of independent Ukraine.

Chervona Ruta (festival) of music held.

Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum founded.

1992

September: Chrysler Imperial rock opera performed.

Ekspres newspaper begins publication.

Austrian Library opens.

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.

2002

27 July: Air show disaster occurs near city.

Ukrainian Catholic University established.

2004 - Center for Urban History of East Central Europe founded.http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/mission/

2006 - Andriy Sadovyi becomes mayor.

2008 - Etnovyr folklore festival and Wiz-Art film festival begin.

2009 - PogoÃÂ LwÃÂ³w 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.

February: 2014 Ukrainian revolution.

2018 - Population: 720,105 (estimate).

2022 - Russian missile attack on the city.

See also

History of Lviv

(Lemberg, LwÃÂ³w, etc.)

List of mayors of Lviv

References

This article incorporates information from the Ukrainian Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, and Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

Published in the 20th century

Published in 21st century

External links

Europeana. Items related to Lviv, various dates.

Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Lviv, various dates

Timeline of Lviv

Prior to 18th century

18thÃ¢ÂÂ19th centuries

20th century

1900Ã¢ÂÂ1939

World War II (1939Ã¢ÂÂ1945)

1945Ã¢ÂÂ2000

21st century

See also

References

Bibliography

External links

18thÃ¢ÂÂ19th centuries

1900Ã¢ÂÂ1939

World War II (1939Ã¢ÂÂ1945)

1945Ã¢ÂÂ2000