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Timeline of Lviv

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

Contents

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.

    • References

    Timeline of Lviv Wikipedia
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