Famous Weddings
Alexandre Dumas
Feb 1 Novelist Alexandre Dumas (37) weds actress Ida Ferrier
Queen Victoria
Feb 10 British Queen Victoria (20) marries her cousin Albert (20) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later the Prince Consort at St James' Palace
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
May 1 American women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (24) weds fellow American abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton (34), until his death in 1887
James Gordon Bennett
Sep 6 Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York
Robert Schumann & Clara Schumann
Sep 12 German pianist and composer Robert Schumann (30) marries German pianist and composer Clara Wieck (20), until his death in 1856
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