March 27 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1871
The first rugby international
Scotland meets England at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, in the world's first international rugby match — twenty players a side, two fifty-minute halves, 4,000 spectators. Scotland wins by a goal to nil, Angus Buchanan scoring the first try in international rugby history. The fixture that became the Calcutta Cup rivalry is born on a cricket field.