The 1st kerosene lamp in the worldIn 1853, two chemists, Johan Zeg and Ignatsy Lukesevych, invented the first oil lamp in a Lviv pharmacy called “Pid Zolotoyu Zirkoyu”, located on Kopernyka Street.
Their employer, the pharmacist Mikoliasha, encouraged them to extract alcohol spirit from oil. While carrying out their various experiments, the two researchers accidentally stumbled on the cracking process used in petroleum chemistry. From that moment, paraffin oil became one of the most popular ways to provide light in inhabited areas. Even today, at the beginning of the XXI century, it is still used by a third of the world’s population. Read other interesting issues about Lviv |
Event Calendar
January 2012
June 2012
Alfa Jazz Fest 2012
“Fairy-Tale in the Grove” - The 8th theater festival for children
July 2012
The 5th “Wiz-Art” International festival
September 2012
October 2012
December 2012
Lviv Christmas Fair
February 2013
March 2013
Lviv Fashion Week
April 2013
II Gastronomic Festival “Lviv on the Plate”
The III Festival of Pysanka (Easter eggs) in Lviv
“Flugery L’vova” (“Weather-Vanes of Lviv”) – the 11th International Jazz Festival
“Lviv – the Capital of Handicrafts” Festival
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1895
Church of Barefoot Carmelites was built according to the project of Franz Schtatz Jr. from Koln
1776
in the Pillers typography the first Lviv regular newspaper appeared - "Gazette de Leopol"
1908
King Jan III National Museum was set up (predecesor of today's Lviv History Musem)
1829
"Building with the four facades" was built and Wiener Kaffeehaus began to opearte there
1448
first mention of Saint Onuphrius Monastery
1582
Gregorian calendar was introduced in Lviv
