Famous Weddings
Gioachino Rossini
Mar 16 Italian opera composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioachino Rossini weds 1st wife, opera singer Isabella Colbran, in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy)
- Jun 29 Nephew of Napoleon, biologist and ornithologist Prince Charles Bonaparte marries cousin Zenaide Bonaparte
Victor Hugo
Oct 12 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" author Victor Hugo (20) weds Adele Fourcher
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