[2] Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host Ivan Vyhovsky was executed by Polish soldiers near the village in 1664.

In a protest against landlordism, local peasants felled the private forest of the Potocki family in January 1893.

The village was first occupied by the Red Army in February 1918 before coming under the occupation of Austria-Hungary and the German Empire a month later.

In December, it was captured by the Directorate of Ukraine, before again being occupied by the Red Army on 4 March 1919.

[2] Ukrainian dissident leader Viacheslav Chornovil lived in Vilkhovets during his childhood.