1844, November 4

Technical Academy was poened in Lviv. Its first director was Florian Shindler. It was situated at the corner of Virmenska and Theatralna streets in the building of Darovsky.
City Hall

1848, November 1

Lviv's center was shelled by the Austrian artillery, during which the building of the Technical Academy was destroyed by the fire. Lectures was replaced in Town Municipality building (3-rd floor) and continued there till 1850.

1850, December 4

The beginning of studies in teh newly-restored building.

1851

The number of students at the Technical Academy made up 220 people.

1852/1853

The beginning of the Academy reorganization.

1872

The Ministry of Affairs of Religions and Education gave permission to teach chemical technologies.

1872, March 12
Main Building

Felix Stshelecki was elected as the first Rector.

1874, April 1 - 1877, October

Academy obtained permission to build new academic premises. Yu. Zakharievych was elected as the construction superintendent.

1877, October 7

The first telephone conversation on the territory of the Austro-Hungarian empire took place. Telephone line connected the Assembly Hall of the Main Building with the primises of the Department of Technical Chemistry.

1877, November 15

Inaguration of the new Rector - proffessor Yu. Zakharievych.

1877

Technical Academy was renamed in Politechnical School.

1880, September 13

Emperor Frantz-Jozeph visited Politechnical School. During that visit he ordered J. Mateiko to depict the technical progress of mankind in 11 pictures. Now these pictures decorate the Assembly Hall.

1894

The 50-th jubilee of Politechnical School. To commemorate that date professor V. Zayonchkovsky published the book "The imperial Politechnical School in Lviv. Historical essay on its foundation and development as well as its present state".

1894, February 13

Politechnic School Statute was adopted.

1905

Lviv Politechnical School possesed the second place in the number of students after Viena.

1919, November 8

Unification of Agricultural Academy (Dubliany) and Higher School of Forestry (Lviv) with Politechnical School.

1920, June 28

Adoption of the New Statute and renaming Politechnical School into Lviv Polytechnic.

1931, February 23

Council of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of Politechnic conferred academic rank of Honorary Doctor to professor Nils Handson(Stockholm, Sweden).

Library

1934

Construction of the building of the Library on Professor Street 1 was finished.

1939, October

Lviv Politechnic was renamed into Lviv Polytechnical Institute.

1941, July 4 (at night)

On Vuletsky Hills fascists shot professors of the Polytechnic Institute - V. Krukovsky, A. Lomnytsky, S. Pilyat, V. Stozhek, K. Vaihel, R. Vitkevych and others.

1941, July 26

Professor K. Bartel was murdered in the basements of Gestapo headquarters.

1942, Spring - 1944 Spring

Special tree-month courses for electrical engineers, road and bridge civil engineers, agrarian engineers, etc. were working in the premises, of the present Mechanical Technology Department.

1944, Autumn

The 100th jubilee of Lviv Polytechnical Institute was celebrated very quietly in Lviv - the Second World War was still going on.

1945

Geodetic Department was founded.

Since October 1946

Lviv Polytechnical Institute began to publish the periodical newspaper Lviv Polytechnic.

1952

Radioengineering Department was founded.

1962

Automation, Electronmechnical and Mechanical Technology Departments was founded.

1966

Economical Engineering Department was founded.

1967

Department of Technology of Organic Substances was founded.

1970

The second building of the Library was erected.

1971

Heating Engineering Department was founded.

1989

Democratic Changes began at Polytechnical Institute

1991, April 10

Inauguration of the first democratically elected during last 50 years Rector - Yu. Rudavsky.

1992

Computer Engineering Department and Information Technology Department was founded.

1992

Institute of Humanities was founded on the basis of the following chairs:
  • History of Ukraine, its Science and Technology
  • Ukrainian Language
  • Politology
  • Philosophy
  • Foreign Languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese)

    • 1993

    Department of Applied Mathematics was founded.

    1993, June

    Lviv Polytechnical Institute got the status of university: State University "Lvivska Polytechnica".

    1994

    "Lvivska Polytechnica" got the status of National University.
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