251 B.C.  The Roman Emperor Gall made a non beneficial treaty for the Empire with the militant tribe of the Carpths. This tribe inhabited the Carpathians in pre-Christian times. According to one of hypotheses, the name of the tribe gave the name to the Carpathian Mountains. At the end of the 3rd century the Roman emperor Avrelian defeated the Carpths and there was no further mentioning of them.

5th—7th century A.D.   Settlement of the Carpathians by the Slavs.

10th—11th centuries   The lands become parts of the Kyivan Rus.

12th—14th centuries   The lands are a part of Galicia and then of the Galicia-Volyn Principality, a powerful state, which had great authority in Western Europe. In 1253, prince Danylo received the king’s crown from Pope Innocent IV. At the beginning of the 14th century, Constantinople gave its consent to found a separate Galicia metropolis.

1256  Prince Danylo founds the city of Lviv and shifts the capital of the principality there. Second half of the 14th century The lands of Galicia-Volyn principality fall to Poland and Bukovyna (now Chernivetsky Region) becomes a part of Hungary and later Romania.

1662   The foundation of the town of Stanislav (now called Ivano-Frankivsk). The French engineer Fran?oise Korassini supervised the construction of the first fortress with bastions.

1672   French diplomat of German origin Ulrich von Werdum made a trip round Ukraine and left the first historic evidence and description of numerous place of the region in his “Diary”.

First half of the 18th century   The peasants’ antifeudal movement in Western Ukrainian lands activates. Folk heroes headed by Oleksa Dovboush are called opryshky.

After 1772   The territory of the present Lvivsky and Ivano-Frankivsky Regions are alieni juris of the Habsburg Empire.  One of the major cultural and economic centers of the time is Lemberg, though you shouldn’t search this name on maps, since Lemberg is present Lviv. At that time, there appear the first resorts in the region.

1918–1919   After the end of World War I, in whose epicenter the region found itself, there forms Western Ukrainian People’s Republic with the capital in Stanislav (present day Ivano-Frankivsk). In 1919 its lands were annexed to Poland.

After 1939   As a result of the Molotov — Ribbentrop’s Pact on the redistribution of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, Lvivsky and Ivano-Frankivsky Regions became a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Yet in 1941 — the region is occupied by Hitler’s troops. It was here that the national liberation movement was most active both against the Nazi Germany and the Soviets.

1945   After the end of World War II, Zakarpattia becomes a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

1991  Україна проголошує суверенітет в територіальних межах Української РСР.