Events that changed L’viv

1350 - 1400

The Armenian Church has been built in 1363.

The first Town Hall was built in the late 1350s-early 1360s.

1550 - 1600

Golden Rosa Synagogue was built.

the bell-tower of Armenian Church has been erected in 1571

In 1580 Italian (Venice) Patio was built by architect Peter of Barbone for Greek merchant, Constantine Kornyakt.

In this House in 1686 was signed Eternal Peace Treaty between Poland and Russia.

Kornyakt Tower near the Uspens’ka (Uspenska) Church was built in 1580 by architect Peter of Barbone for Greek merchant, Constantine Kornyakt.

In 1588 construction of Black Stone House started,

famous for its stones, grown dark with age.

1601 - 1650

Constantine Kornyakt - one of Lviv’s richest and most influential man, founder of the Kornyakt’s Tower, Uspens’ka Church and Three Saint’s Chapel -
died in 1603; he was 83 years old and had been buried in crypt of Uspens’ka church.

The Chapel of Boims - Renascence-building monument built 1609-1615 by merchant George Boim.

1651 - 1700

The upper floor and the sculptures of the facade were added to Black Stone House in 1675-77 by architect M. Hradovskyj.

Eternal Peace Treaty between Poland and Russia, under which Poland gave up its claims to the left-bank Ukraine was signed in L’viv in Italian Patio in 1686.

1700 - 1750

Building of Church of the Dominicans started

the column of St.Christopher has been erected in the yard of Armenian Church (1726)

1750 - 1800

Church of the Dominicans finished.

1800 - 1850

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born in 1836 at Lemberg and in 1848

he moved to Prague with family.

1831 -

disastrous outbreaks of cholera as one can learn from letters from Mozart’s son, Franz Xaver in his efforts to propagate his father’s works.

Count Stanislav Scarbek started works on building The Maria Zankovetska Drama Theatre (1834) and the official opening was in 1842.

The present building of Town Hall, designed by architects Juzef Markel, Frantishek Treter and Alois Wondrashka, was built in 1835.

July 29, 1844 - Franz Xavier Mozart, son of Wolfgang Mozart, who lived and worked in Lemberg (Lviv), died. On that date memorial services, with performances of Mozart’s Requiem were held in his memory in Salzburg, Vienna and Lemberg.

1851 - 1900

L’viv Opera and Ballet Theatre - was constructed in 1897-1900 in the Viennese neo-Renaissance style.

Karl Radek - leader of Comintern - born in L’viv in 1885 in a family of postal official.

1900 - 1950

Stanislaw Lem - prominent science fiction writer of the 20th century, classic writer of contemporary sci-fi - was born in Lviv on Sept. 12, 1921 to the family of a famous laryngologist.

2 - 9 of August 1944 Iosif Stalin and Stanislaw Mykolaichik were negotiating the future of Russian - Polish relationships. Here is a transcript related to the status of L’viv. Stalin and Mykolaichik arguing about L’viv
Since 1944 the Ukraine’s oldest theatre for children has been based in L’viv.

1950 - 2000

The Les Kurbas Theatre of L’viv was founded in 1988 by Volodymyr Kuchynsky

L’viv Voskresinnia Theatre was founded in 1990 by Yaroslav Fedoryshyn and group of young actors from various cities of Ukraine.