Template:On this day/March 27

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

March 27:

• 1775 – The Second Revolutionary Convention appointed Thomas Jefferson alternate to Peyton Randolph as one of Virginia’s delegates to the Second Continental Congress.
• 1869 – Samuel Miller, Albemarle-born tobacconist, merchant, and railroad investor, died at age 76. One of the South’s wealthiest antebellum businessmen, he later endowed the University of Virginia and the Miller School of Albemarle.