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1914

August

26
- Battle of the Złota Lipa beginsOn 26 August 1914 the Austro-Hungarian Third Army attacked east of Lviv and collided with the much stronger armies of Ruzsky and Brusilov.
30
- Battle of the Złota Lipa endsOn 30 August 1914 the Russians broke the Austro-Hungarian defence on the Gniła Lipa. Brudermann's army fell back beyond Lviv, opening the city to them.

September

03
- Russians take LvivOn 3 September 1914 Russian troops entered Lviv, the capital of Galicia, without a fight. An occupation and Russification lasting until June 1915 began.
08
- Battle of Gródek and Rawa Ruska beginsOn 8 September 1914 Conrad launched the Austro-Hungarian armies at Lviv via Gródek Jagielloński. The Russian Fifth Army threatened them from the north.

1915

June

1918

November

December

26
- West Ukrainian People's RepublicAt the end of 1918 the government of the West Ukrainian People's Republic sat in Tarnopol. It was building an army and preparing union with Dnieper Ukraine.

1919

March

19
- End of the siege of LvivOn 19 March 1919 Polish units, among them Konarzewski's Greater Poland troops, retook the Przemyśl–Lviv railway and broke the Ukrainian ring round the city.

May

14
- Polish offensive in Eastern GaliciaOn 14 May 1919 Haller's troops, despite Entente objections, attacked the Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, taking most of the country in two weeks.

1920

August

17
- Battle of ZadwórzeOn 17 August 1920 Captain Zajączkowski's battalion of Lviv volunteers held out all day at Zadwórze against Budyonny's cavalry. 318 men were killed.