Rugby Union
- 115th Six Nations Championship series is won by Ireland who complete the Grand Slam
- 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens
- Wales win the men's competition.
- The inaugural women's competition is won by Australia.
- 2008–09 IRB Sevens World Series – South Africa
- July 18 – The Magners League and Italian Rugby Federation tentatively agree that two Italian teams will enter the previously Celtic league in 2010–11.
- September 14 – SANZAR, the organiser of the Tri Nations and Super 14 competitions, announces that Argentina has been provisionally invited to join an expanded "Four Nations" competition effective in 2012.
- November 12 – Independent arbitrators appointed by SANZAR award the 15th Super Rugby franchise to Melbourne, specifically to the operators of the Melbourne Rebels, the city's representative in the defunct Australian Rugby Championship. The new team, whose name was ultimately announced as the Rebels, will join an expanded Super 15 in 2011.
- 2009 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa – South Africa wins the Test series 2–1
- Tri Nations – South Africa
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“If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of uniting free states and slaveholding states in one nation is, perhaps, a failure.... There probably is an “irrepressible conflict” between freedom and slavery. It may as well be admitted, and our new relations may as be formed with that as an admitted fact.”
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