Timeline of Lviv

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

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.
 * 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 -.
 * 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 -  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 Łukasiewicz invents kerosene lamp.
 * Street lighting installed.
 * 1863 - 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) 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.

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 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.
 * 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.
 * 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: begins.
 * 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.
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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.
 * 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.