Lviv was targeted during the Russian missile strikes on Ukraine, resulting in a city-wide blackout.

Lviv was hit by five missile strikes, targeting military factories and a tyre shop, resulting in civilian casualties.

The Lviv State Aircraft Repair Plant near the Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport was hit by Russian missile attacks.

The area in and around Lviv was struck by Russian missile attacks, hitting the Yavoriv military training base.

Lviv's executive committee declared itself independent of the rule of President Viktor Yanukovych in support of the Euromaidan movement.

Lviv saw the largest rally in support of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union, gathering some 100,000 participants.

The agreement from August 1945 was ratified, and Lviv became part of the Soviet Union.

A border agreement was signed in Moscow between the Soviet Union and Poland, formalizing the Polish-Soviet border along the Curzon Line.

The Soviet 3rd Guards Tank Army captured Lviv after the successful Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive.

Nazi Germany and its allies invaded the USSR, and Lviv was taken by the Germans during Operation Barbarossa.

Lviv capitulated to the Red Army after Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland.

The Western Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed with Lviv as its capital.

The Lemberg Fortress fell to the Russian army during the Battle of Gnila Lipa at the early stages of the First World War.

King John II Casimir of Poland issued a decree granting the Jesuit Collegium the honour of the academy and the title of the university.

King John II Casimir made his famous Lwów Oath during a holy mass in Lviv's Cathedral, entrusting the Commonwealth under the Blessed Virgin Mary's protection.

King Casimir III the Great moved the city to a new location and granted it Magdeburg rights, which implied that all city matters were to be resolved by a council elected by the wealthy citizens.