Timeline of Lviv

Prior to 18th century

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.

1365 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Lwow established.

1370

Armenian church built.

Latin Cathedral construction begins (approximate date).

1387 - City becomes part 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.

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.

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.

1656 - Lwów Oath.

1661 - Jesuit Lviv University founded.

1664

Pogrom of Jews.

Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic becomes mayor.

1665 - City "resisted an Italian force."

1672 - City taken 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.

1772 - City becomes capital of Austrian Galicia; renamed "Lemberg".

1776 - Population: 29,500.

1784

Secular University established.

Brygidki prison in use.

1787 - Lychakiv Cemetery established.

1788 - Stauropegion Institute founded.

1809 - 27 May-19 June: City taken by forces of Józef Poniatowski.

1810 - Gazeta Lwowska (1810-1939) 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 newspaper begins publication.

1850 - Chamber of Commerce founded.

1853 - Street lighting installed.

1863 - House of Invalids built.

1867 - 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 founded.

Galician Regional Diet building constructed.

1890 - Population: 128,419.

1892 - Lychakivskyi Park laid out.

1893 - Grand Hotel built on Svobody Prospect.

1894 - Galician Regional Exhibition held.

1898

Statue of John III Sobieski erected in Svobody Prospect.

Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk literary-scientific journal begins publication.

20th century

1900

Grand Theatre built.

Population: 159,618.

1901 - Hotel George opens.

1904 - Railway station opens.

1905 - Lwow Ecclesiastical Museum established.

1907 - Galician Music Society building constructed.

1908

12 April: Politician Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki assassinated.

Polish History Museum, Lwów established.

1909 - Industry and Crafts College built.

1911 - Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth built.

1913 - Magnus department store built on Hospital Street, Lviv.

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).

1920 - Battle of Lwów (1920).

1923 - City becomes part of Poland per Conference of Ambassadors.

1924 - Polish Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów established.

1925 - Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue built.

1930 - Area of city: 66 square kilometers.

1937 - Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów established.

1939

12–22 September: Battle of Lwów (1939).

City becomes part of Soviet Ukraine, and capital of the Lviv Oblast.

Czerwony Sztandar Polish-language newspaper begins publication.

1940 - Union of Soviet Architects branch and Ukrainian State Institute of Urban Planning branch organized.

1941

Lviv pogroms.

30 June: German occupation begins.

July: Massacre of Lviv professors.

September: Janowska concentration camp begins operating.

8 November: Lwów Ghetto begins.

1944

23–27 July: Lwów Uprising against German occupation.

27 July: German occupation ends; Russians in power.

December: Evacuation of Poles from Lviv begins.

Central State Historical Archive of the Ukrainian SSR in Lviv established.

1945

City known as "Lviv".

Lviv Bus Factory built.

1952

Lenin statue erected.

Hill of Glory monument and Bohdan Khmelnytsky Culture and Recreation Park built.

1957 - Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsia Institute established.

1958 - Polish People's Theatre established.

1963

Football Club Karpaty Lviv formed.

Ukraina Stadium opens.

1966 - Pharmacy Museum opens.

1970

Ukraïnskyi visnyk magazine begins publication.

Population: 553,452.

1979 - Population: 665,065.

1987

Lion Society formed.

Levshan-zillia magazine begins publication.

1989

Dead Rooster musical group formed.

Population: 786,903.

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.

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 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.[1]

2006 - Andriy Sadovyi becomes mayor.

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

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.