Timeline of Lviv

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

Prior to 18th century[]

Historical affiliations

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia c. 1256 – 1349
Kingdom of Poland 1349–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1772
Austrian Empire 1772–1867
Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867–1918
West Ukrainian People's Republic 1918
Poland 1918–1939
Soviet Union 1939–1941
Nazi Germany 1941–1944
Soviet Union 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]
1356 - City granted Magdeburg rights.^[1]
1362 - High Castle rebuilt.
1363 - Armenian church built.
1365 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Lwow established.^[3]
1370 - Latin Cathedral construction begins (approximate date).
1387 - City becomes part of Poland.^[2]
1412 - Catholic see established.^[4]
1434 - City becomes capital of the Polish Ruthenian Voivodeship.^[1]
1480 - Latin Cathedral construction completed.^[5]
1527 - [ru].^[2]
1550 - Church of St. Onuphrius built.
1556 - Arsenal built.
1580 - Korniakt Palace built on Market Square.
1582 - Karaite synagogue built.^[6]
1586 - Ukrainian Lviv Dormition Brotherhood established.^[1]
1589 - Bandinelli Palace built on Market Square.
1593 - Printing press in operation.^[7]
1609 - Golden Rose Synagogue opens.^[6]
1618 - Hlyniany Gate built.
1626 - City becomes seat of Armenian bishopric.^[8]
1629 - Dormition Church built.
1630 - Bernardine Church and Monastery and Church of St. Mary Magdalene consecrated.
1648 - City besieged by Cossacks.^[9]
1656 - Lwów Oath.
1661 - Jesuit Lviv University founded.
1672 - Siege of Lviv by Turks.^[9]
1675 - Battle of Lwów (1675).

18th–19th centuries[]

1704 - City besieged by forces of Charles XII of Sweden.^[10]
1762 - Greek Catholic St. George's Cathedral built.
1772 - City becomes capital of Austrian Galicia;^[4] renamed "Lemberg".
1776 - Population: 29,500.^[2]
1784
- Secular University established.^[10]
- Brygidki prison in use.
1787 - Lychakiv Cemetery established.
1788 - Stauropegion Institute founded.
1809 - 27 May-19 June: City taken by forces of Józef Poniatowski.^[10]^[11]
1810 - [pl] newspaper begins publication.
1817 - Polish Ossolineum founded.^[12]
1825 - German designated as official administrative language.^[2]
1829 - Viennese Cafe in business.^[13]
1835 - Town Hall^[10] and Ivan Franko Park gazebo built.
1842 - Skarbek Theatre opens.
1844 - Technical Academy established.
1846 - Tempel Synagogue built.^[14]
1848
- 2 November: City "bombarded by the Austrians."^[9]
- [uk] newspaper begins publication.
1850 - Chamber of Commerce founded.^[15]
1853
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz invents kerosene lamp.
- Street lighting installed.^{[citation needed]}
1863 - [uk] built.^[14]
1867 - Pravda newspaper begins publication.^[1]
1868 - Prosvita society founded.^[16]
1870
- City self-government in effect.^[2]
- Population: 87,105.^[9]
1873 - Shevchenko Scientific Society founded.^[16]
1877 - Industrial exhibition held.^[2]
1878 - Government House built.
1880 - [uk] newspaper begins publication.^[16]
1881
- [uk] founded.^[1]
- Galician Regional Diet building constructed.^[14]
1883 - [pl] newspaper begins publication.
1890 - Population: 128,419.^[17]
1892 - Lychakivskyi Park laid out.^[18]
1893 - Grand Hotel built on [uk].^[18]
1894 - [uk] held.^[19]
1898
- Statue of John III Sobieski erected in [uk].^[19]
- Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk literary-scientific journal begins publication.^[1]
1900
- Grand Theatre built.
- Population: 159,618.^[5]

20th century[]

1901 - Hotel George opens.^[20]
1904 - Railway station opens.
1905 - Lwow Ecclesiastical Museum established.
1907 - Galician Music Society building constructed.^[14]
1908
- 12 April: Politician [pl] assassinated.^[21]
- [pl] established.
1909 - Industry and Crafts College built.^[14]
1911 - Church of Sts. Olha and Elizabeth built.
1913 - Magnus department store built on [uk].^[14]
1914
- 26 August-1 September: German-Russian conflict.^[4]
- September: Russian occupation begins.^[8]
1915
- May: Austrians in power.
- 3–22 June: German-Russian conflict.^[4]
- July: Russian occupation ends.^[8]
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).
1920 - Battle of Lwów (1920).
1923 - City becomes 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 - anti-fascist demonstration 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.
1939
- 12–22 September: Battle of Lwów (1939).^[4]
- City becomes part of Soviet Ukraine, and capital of the Lviv Oblast.^[2]
- Czerwony Sztandar Polish-language communist newspaper begins publication.
1940 - [ru] branch and Ukrainian State Institute of Urban Planning branch organized.^[22]
1941
- 30 June: German occupation begins.^[4]
  - Lviv pogroms (1941)
- July: Massacre of Lviv professors.
- September: Janowska concentration camp begins operating.
- 8 November: Lwów Ghetto is established.
1944
- 23–27 July: Lwów Uprising against German occupation.
- 27 July: German occupation ends; Russians in power.^[4]
- December: [pl] begins.^[23]
- [uk] established.^[24]
1945
- City known as "Lviv".
- Lviv Bus Factory built.
1952
- Lenin statue erected.^[18]^[22]
- [uk] monument^[23] and [uk] built.^[22]
1957 - Ukrzakhidproektrestavratsia Institute established.^[25]
1958 - Polish People's Theatre established.^[23]
1963
- Football Club Karpaty Lviv formed.
- Ukraina Stadium opens.
1965 - Population: 496,000.^[26]
1966 - Pharmacy Museum opens.
1970
- Ukraïnskyi visnyk magazine begins publication.^[27]
- Population: 553,452.^[28]
1979 - Population: 665,065.^[28]
1985 - Population: 742,000.^[29]
1987
- Lion Society formed.^[30]
- Levshan-zillia magazine begins publication.^[27]
1989
- Dead Rooster musical group formed.
- Population: 786,903.^[28]
1990
- [uk] festival begins.
- [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.^[31]
- Ekspres newspaper begins publication.
- Austrian Library opens.^[25]
- [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.^[28]
2002
- 27 July: Air show disaster occurs near city.
- Ukrainian Catholic University established.^[25]
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.^[32]
- February: 2014 Ukrainian revolution.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Lviv". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Hrytsak 2000.
^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Ukraine". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Lvov", Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 643, OL 5812502M
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Britannica 1910.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "L'viv". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014.
^ Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. H. Grevel & Co.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c George Lerski (1996). "Lvov". Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-03456-5.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Ripley 1879.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Townsend 1877.
^ Die Stadt Lemberg im Jahre 1809 [Lemberg in 1809] (in German). Lviv: Schnellpresse des Stauropigian-Instituts. 1862.
^ Paul Robert Magocsi (2002). Historical Atlas of Central Europe. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8486-6.
^ Larry Wolff (2012). The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-7429-1.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Purchla 2000.
^ "Ukraine: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 4319+. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
^ Chambers 1901.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Lviv Interactive". Lviv: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Prokopovych 2009.
^ "Lviv's, and a Family's, Stories in Architecture", New York Times, 17 October 2013
^ Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Austrian Galicia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Tscherkes 2000.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Risch 2011.
^ Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (1988). "Repositories in Lviv". Ukraine and Moldavia. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the U.S.S.R. Princeton University Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-4008-5982-5.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Links". Lviv: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. Lvov
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Bohdan Yasinsky (ed.). "Place of Publication Index: Lviv". Independent Press in Ukraine, 1988-1992. USA: Library of Congress. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Lozinski 2005.
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
^ Kenney 2009.
^ Alexandra Hrycak (1997). "The Coming of "Chrysler Imperial": Ukrainian Youth and Rituals of Resistance". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 21 (1/2): 63–91. JSTOR 41036642.
^ "A Ukraine City Spins Beyond the Government's Reach", New York Times, 15 February 2014

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

Bibliography[]

Published in the 19th century

Abraham Rees (1819), "Lemberg", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown
John Ramsay McCulloch (1851). "Lemberg". A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.
Charles Knight, ed. (1867). "Lemberg". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. 2. London.
David Kay (1880), "Principal Towns: Lemberg", Austria-Hungary, Foreign Countries and British Colonies, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
George Henry Townsend (1877), "Lemberg", Manual of Dates (5th ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
George Ripley; Charles A. Dana, eds. (1879). "Lemberg". American Cyclopedia (2nd ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company.
Norddeutscher Lloyd (1896), "Austria: Lemberg", Guide through Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, Berlin: J. Reichmann & Cantor, OCLC 8395555

Published in the 20th century

"Lemberg", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901
"Lemberg". Handbook for Travellers in South Germany and Austria (15th ed.). London: J. Murray. 1903.
A.S. Waldstein (1907), "Lemberg", Jewish Encyclopedia, 7, New York
"Lemberg", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
S. Vailhe (1910). "Lemberg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
"Lemberg". Austria-Hungary (11th ed.). Leipzig: Karl Baedeker. 1911.
Bohdan Janusz (1922). Przewodnik po Lwowie [Guide to Lwow] (in Polish). Lviv: Wszechświat.
George G. Grabowicz (2000). "Mythologizing Lviv/Lwów: Echoes of Presence and Absence". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 24: 313–342. JSTOR 41036821.
Yaroslav Hrytsak (2000). "Lviv: A Multicultural History through the Centuries". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 24: 47–73. JSTOR 41036810.
Padraic Kenney (2000). "Lviv's Central European Renaissance, 1987–1990". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 24: 303–312. JSTOR 41036820.
Jacek Purchla (2000). "Patterns of Influence: Lviv and Vienna in the Mirror of Architecture". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 24: 131–147. JSTOR 41036813.
Bohdan Tscherkes; Nicholas Sawicki (2000). "Stalinist Visions for the Urban Transformation of Lviv, 1939–1955". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 24: 205–222. JSTOR 41036816.

Published in 21st century

Роман Лозинський (Roman Lozinski) (2005), Етнічний склад населення Львова (у контексті суспільного розвитку Галичини) [Ethnic composition of the city (in the context of social development Galicia)] (PDF) (in Ukrainian), Lviv: Ivan Franko National University of L'viv)
Heidi Hein (2006). Christian Emden; et al. (eds.). Idea of Lviv as a Bulwark against the East. Imagining the City. Peter Lang. p. 321. ISBN 978-3-03910-533-5.
Markian Prokopovych (2009). Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space, and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772-1914. Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-55753-510-8.
William Jay Risch (2011). Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05001-3.
Tarik Cyril Amar (2015). The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv. A Borderland City between Nazis, Stalinists, and Nationalists. Cornell University. ISBN 978-0-8014-5391-5.

External links[]

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

[Katchanovski2013-Lviv-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Lviv". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.

[FOOTNOTEHrytsak2000-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Hrytsak 2000.

[katolsk-3] "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Ukraine". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 28 February 2015.

[webster1960-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Lvov", Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 643, OL 5812502M

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b Britannica 1910.

[yivo-6] Jump up to: ^a ^b "L'viv". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on 9 October 2014.

[Bouchot1890-7] Henri Bouchot (1890). "Topographical index of the principal towns where early printing presses were established". In H. Grevel (ed.). The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. H. Grevel & Co.

[Lerski1996-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c George Lerski (1996). "Lvov". Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-03456-5.

[FOOTNOTERipley1879-9] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Ripley 1879.

[FOOTNOTETownsend1877-10] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Townsend 1877.

[11] Die Stadt Lemberg im Jahre 1809 [Lemberg in 1809] (in German). Lviv: Schnellpresse des Stauropigian-Instituts. 1862.

[Magocsi2002-12] Paul Robert Magocsi (2002). Historical Atlas of Central Europe. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8486-6.

[Wolff2012-13] Larry Wolff (2012). The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-7429-1.

[FOOTNOTEPurchla2000-14] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Purchla 2000.

[Group2004-15] "Ukraine: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 4319+. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.

[Katchanovski2013-chronology-16] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.

[FOOTNOTEChambers1901-17] Chambers 1901.

[Interactive-18] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Lviv Interactive". Lviv: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

[FOOTNOTEProkopovych2009-19] Jump up to: ^a ^b Prokopovych 2009.

[20] "Lviv's, and a Family's, Stories in Architecture", New York Times, 17 October 2013

[haydn1910-21] Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Austrian Galicia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust

[FOOTNOTETscherkes2000-22] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Tscherkes 2000.

[FOOTNOTERisch2011-23] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Risch 2011.

[Grimsted1988-24] Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (1988). "Repositories in Lviv". Ukraine and Moldavia. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the U.S.S.R. Princeton University Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-4008-5982-5.

[Lvivcenter-Links-25] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Links". Lviv: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

[26] "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. Lvov

[yasinsky-27] Jump up to: ^a ^b Bohdan Yasinsky (ed.). "Place of Publication Index: Lviv". Independent Press in Ukraine, 1988-1992. USA: Library of Congress. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

[FOOTNOTELozinski2005-28] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Lozinski 2005.

[29] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.

[FOOTNOTEKenney2009-30] Kenney 2009.

[31] Alexandra Hrycak (1997). "The Coming of "Chrysler Imperial": Ukrainian Youth and Rituals of Resistance". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 21 (1/2): 63–91. JSTOR 41036642.

[32] "A Ukraine City Spins Beyond the Government's Reach", New York Times, 15 February 2014

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