Timeline of Lviv

History of Lviv, Ukraine

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. 1256–1340
Kingdom of Poland 1340–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1772
Austrian Empire 1772–1867
Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867–1918
Ukraine West Ukrainian People's Republic 1918
Poland Poland 1918–1939
 Soviet Union 1939–1941
 Nazi Germany 1941–1944
 Soviet Union 1944–1991
 Ukraine 1991–present

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17th-century view of the city

18th–19th centuries

Lwów in the 1860s
  • 1863 - House of Invalids [uk] built.[17]
  • 1867
  • 1868 - Prosvita society founded.[19]
  • 1870
    • City self-government in effect.[2]
    • Population: 87,105.[10]
  • 1873 - Shevchenko Scientific Society founded.[19]
  • 1877 - Industrial exhibition held.[2]
  • 1878 - Government House built.
  • 1880 - Dilo [uk] newspaper begins publication.[19]
  • 1881
    • Ridna Shkola Society [uk] founded.[1]
    • Galician Regional Diet building constructed.[17]
  • 1883 - Kurier Lwowski [pl] newspaper begins publication.
  • 1890 - Population: 128,419.[20]
  • 1892 - Lychakivskyi Park laid out.[21]
  • 1893 - Grand Hotel built on Svobody Prospect [uk].[21]
  • 1894 - Galician Regional Exhibition [uk] held.[22]
  • 1898
  • 1900

20th century

1900–1939

Early 20th-century view of the Market Square

World War II (1939–1945)

Aerial view of the city center during World War II
  • 1939
    • 12 September: German forces attack the city. Battle of Lwów (1939) begins.[25][6]
    • 18 September: Soviet forces join the German siege of the city.[25]
    • 22 September: End of the Battle of Lwów.[6] Soviet occupation begins.
    • September: Polish resistance movement established in the city.[26]
    • The Soviets carried out deportations of captured Polish POWs to the USSR, mostly to Starobilsk.[25]
    • October: Czerwony Sztandar Polish-language communist newspaper begins publication.
    • November: City annexed into Soviet Ukraine, and made capital of the newly formed Lviv Oblast.[2]
  • 1940
    • General Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, leader of the Polish resistance, arrested by the NKVD.[27]
    • April–May: Many Polish defenders of the city murdered in the Katyn massacre by the Soviets.[25]
    • 19–20 November: The Soviets sentenced 14 leaders of the local branch of the Union of Armed Struggle Polish resistance organization to death.[26]
    • Union of Soviet Architects [ru] branch and Ukrainian State Institute of Urban Planning branch organized.[28]
  • 1941
  • 1942 - Local branch of the Żegota underground Polish resistance organization established to rescue Jews from the Holocaust.[30]
  • 1943
    • January: Stalag 328 POW camp relocated to Drohobycz.[29]
    • November: Stalag 328 POW camp relocated from Drohobycz back to Lwów.[29]
  • 1944
    • 1 February: Stalag 328 POW camp converted into the Oflag 76 POW camp for officers.[31]
    • 9 May: Oflag 76 POW camp dissolved.[31]
    • 23–27 July: Polish Lwów Uprising against German occupation.
    • 27 July: German occupation ends; city re-occupied by the Soviet Union.[6]
    • December: Expulsion of Poles from Lviv [pl] begins.[32]
    • Central State Historical Archive of the Ukrainian SSR in Lviv [uk] established.[33]
  • 1945 - City annexed from Poland by the Soviet Union, and renamed to Lviv.

1945–2000

21st century

Fire at a fuel depot after Russian shelling in 2022

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Hrytsak 2000.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Britannica 1910.
  4. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Ukraine". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  5. ^ "Kalendarz dat: 1387". Dzieje.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "Lvov", Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 643, OL 5812502M
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ a b c George Lerski (1996). "Lvov". Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-03456-5.
  10. ^ a b c d Ripley 1879.
  11. ^ a b c d Townsend 1877.
  12. ^ Gembarzewski, Bronisław (1925). Rodowody pułków polskich i oddziałów równorzędnych od r. 1717 do r. 1831 (in Polish). Warszawa: Towarzystwo Wiedzy Wojskowej. p. 27.
  13. ^ Gembarzewski, p. 62
  14. ^ Die Stadt Lemberg im Jahre 1809 [Lemberg in 1809] (in German). Lviv: Schnellpresse des Stauropigian-Instituts. 1862.
  15. ^ Paul Robert Magocsi (2002). Historical Atlas of Central Europe. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8486-6.
  16. ^ Larry Wolff (2012). The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-7429-1.
  17. ^ a b c d e f Purchla 2000.
  18. ^ "Ukraine: Directory". Europa World Year Book. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 4319+. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
  19. ^ a b c Ivan Katchanovski; et al. (2013). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Ukraine (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7847-1.
  20. ^ Chambers 1901.
  21. ^ a b c "Lviv Interactive". Lviv: Center for Urban History of East Central Europe. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  22. ^ a b Prokopovych 2009.
  23. ^ "Lviv's, and a Family's, Stories in Architecture", New York Times, 17 October 2013
  24. ^ Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Austrian Galicia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776 – via Hathi Trust
  25. ^ a b c d Agresja sowiecka na Polskę i okupacja wschodnich terenów Rzeczypospolitej 1939–1941 (in Polish). Białystok-Warszawa: IPN. 2019. pp. 8–9. ISBN 978-83-8098-706-7.
  26. ^ a b c Agresja sowiecka na Polskę i okupacja wschodnich terenów Rzeczypospolitej 1939–1941, p. 15
  27. ^ Agresja sowiecka na Polskę i okupacja wschodnich terenów Rzeczypospolitej 1939–1941, p. 38
  28. ^ a b c Tscherkes 2000.
  29. ^ a b c Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.
  30. ^ Datner, Szymon (1968). Las sprawiedliwych (in Polish). Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza. p. 69.
  31. ^ a b Megargee, Geoffrey P.; Overmans, Rüdiger; Vogt, Wolfgang (2022). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume IV. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1.
  32. ^ a b c Risch 2011.
  33. ^ Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (1988). "Repositories in Lviv". Ukraine and Moldavia. Princeton University Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-1-4008-5982-5. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  34. ^ "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
  35. ^ a b Bohdan Yasinsky (ed.). "Place of Publication Index: Lviv". Independent Press in Ukraine, 1988-1992. USA: Library of Congress. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  36. ^ a b c d Lozinski 2005.
  37. ^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  38. ^ Kenney 2000.
  39. ^ Alexandra Hrycak (1997). "The Coming of "Chrysler Imperial": Ukrainian Youth and Rituals of Resistance". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 21 (1/2): 63–91. JSTOR 41036642.
  40. ^ "A Ukraine City Spins Beyond the Government's Reach", New York Times, 15 February 2014
  41. ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2020, United Nations
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Bibliography

Published in the 19th century
  • Abraham Rees (1819), "Lemberg", The Cyclopaedia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, hdl:2027/mdp.39015068382327
  • John Ramsay McCulloch (1851). "Lemberg". A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.
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  • David Kay (1880), "Principal Towns: Lemberg", Austria-Hungary, Foreign Countries and British Colonies, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, hdl:2027/mdp.39015030647005
  • George Henry Townsend (1877), "Lemberg", Manual of Dates (5th ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co., hdl:2027/wu.89097349427
  • George Ripley; Charles A. Dana, eds. (1879). "Lemberg". American Cyclopedia (2nd ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company. hdl:2027/hvd.hn585q.
  • "Lemberg" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (9th ed.). 1882. p. 435.
  • 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
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  • Bohdan Janusz (1922). Przewodnik po Lwowie [Guide to Lwow] (in Polish). Lviv: Wszechświat.
  • Rosa Bailly (1956), A City Fights for Freedom: The Rising of Lwów in 1918-1919, London: Publishing Committee Leopolis
  • 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.
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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. Peter Lang. p. 321. ISBN 978-3-03910-533-5. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • 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.

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