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Start of failed Russian offensive aimed at recapturing Vilna, then one of the main towns in the Russian Baltic provinces.
SMS Bayern, nameship of the Bayern class of battleships, begins trials. She is too late for Jutland and never takes part in a major battle. She is the first of only two German dreadnaughts to be completed during the First World War.