Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1836

Jan 6 Author Harriet Beecher (24) weds educator Calvin Ellis Stowe (33) in Cincinnati, Ohio

Apr 2 English novelist and social critic Charles Dickens (24) marries Catherine Thomson Hogarth (20)

Apr 9 Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later known as King Dom Fernando II upon the birth of their son, Pedro V of Portugal

May 16 American writer Edgar Allan Poe (26) marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm

Jul 5 English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel marries Mary Elizabeth Horsley