# Timeline of Lviv

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

## Prior to 18th century

   Golden Horde c. 1256–1340 ∟ Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia c. 1256–1340 Kingdom of Poland 1340–1569 Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1772 Austrian Empire 1772–1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867–1918 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)  Soviet Union 1944–1991 ∟ Ukrainian SSR 1944–1991  Ukraine 1991–present
* 1256 - Lviv mentioned in the Galician–Volhynian 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 - City granted Magdeburg rights.
* 1362 - High Castle rebuilt.
* 1363 - Armenian church built.
* 1365 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Lwów established.
* 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.
* 1412 - Catholic see established.
* 1434 - City becomes capital of the Polish Ruthenian Voivodeship.
* 1480 - Latin Cathedral construction completed.
* 1527 - Lviv fire of 1527 [ru].
* 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 - Lwów Oath.
* 1661 - Jesuit Lviv University founded.
* 1672 - Siege of Lviv by Turks.
* 1675 - Battle of Lwów (1675).

## 18th–19th 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 Lwów.
* 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 Lwów.
** 27 May-19 June: City taken by forces of Józef Poniatowski.
* 1810 - Gazeta Lwowska (1810-1939) [pl] 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."
** Galician Dawn [uk] newspaper begins publication.
* 1850 - Chamber of Commerce founded.
* 1853
** Ignacy Łukasiewicz invents kerosene lamp.
** Street lighting installed.
* 1863 - House of Invalids [uk] built.
* 1867
** 7 February: Polish Gymnastic Society "Sokół" 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
** Ridna Shkola Society [uk] founded.
** Galician Regional Diet building constructed.
* 1883 - Kurier Lwowski [pl] newspaper begins publication.
* 1890 - Population: 128,419.
* 1892 - Lychakivskyi Park laid out.
* 1893 - Grand Hotel built on Svobody Prospect [uk].
* 1894 - Galician Regional Exhibition [uk] held.
* 1898
** John III Sobieski Monument erected in Svobody Prospect [uk].
** Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk literary-scientific journal begins publication.
* 1900
** Grand Theatre built.
** Population: 159,618.

## 20th century
### 1900–1939

* 1901 - Hotel George opens.
* 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.
* 1908
** 12 April: Politician Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki assassinated.
** Polish History Museum, Lwów [pl] established.
* 1909 - Industry and Crafts College built.
* 1911 - Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth built.
* 1913 - Magnus department store built on Hospital Street, Lviv [uk].
* 1914
** 26 August-1 September: German-Russian conflict.
** September: Russian occupation begins.
* 1915
** May: Austrians in power.
** 3–22 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.
** 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.
* 1924 - Polish Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów established.
* 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.
* 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.
** 18 September: Soviet forces join the German siege of the city.
** 22 September: End of the Battle of Lwów. 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 Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, leader of the Polish resistance, arrested by the NKVD.
** April–May: Many Polish defenders of the city murdered in the Katyn massacre by the Soviets.
** 19–20 November: The Soviets sentenced 14 leaders of the local branch of the Union of Armed Struggle Polish resistance organization to death.
** Union of Soviet Architects [ru] 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.
** 22–30 June: Battle of Lwów (1941).
** 30 June: German occupation begins.
** 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.
** 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.
* 1943
** January: Stalag 328 POW camp relocated to Drohobycz.
** November: Stalag 328 POW camp relocated from Drohobycz back to Lwów.
* 1944
** 1 February: Stalag 328 POW camp converted into the Oflag 76 POW camp for officers.
** 9 May: Oflag 76 POW camp dissolved.
** 23–27 July: Polish Lwów Uprising against German occupation.
** 27 July: German occupation ends; city re-occupied by the Soviet Union.
** December: Expulsion of Poles from Lviv [pl] begins.
** Central State Historical Archive of the Ukrainian SSR in Lviv [uk] established.
* 1945 - City annexed from Poland by the Soviet Union, and renamed to Lviv.

### 1945–2000

* 1945 – Lviv Bus Factory built.
* 1952
** Lenin statue erected.
** Hill of Glory [uk] monument and Bohdan Khmelnytsky Culture and Recreation Park [uk] 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
** Ukraïnskyi 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
** 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.
* 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.
** 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.
* 2002
** 27 July: Air show disaster occurs near city.
** Ukrainian Catholic University established.
* 2004 - Center for Urban History of East Central Europe founded.
* 2006 - Andriy Sadovyi becomes mayor.
* 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.
** February: 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
* 2018 - Population: 720,105 (estimate).
* 2022 - Russian missile attack on the city.