Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
49 Roman Emperor Claudius marries his fourth wife and niece Agrippina the Younger
- 414 King Ataulf of Narbonne marries emperor Honorius sister Galle Placidia
Thomas Jefferson
1772 US founding father Thomas Jefferson (30) marries Martha Wayles Skelton (23)
James Fenimore Cooper
1811 Writer James Fenimore Cooper (21) weds Susan Augusta de Lancey in Mamaroneck, New York
James Knox Polk
1824 US President James Knox Polk (28) weds Sarah Childress (20) in Murfreesboro
David Lloyd George
1888 55th UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George (25) weds first wife Margaret Owen
Emilio Aguinaldo
1896 1st Filipino President Emilio Aguinaldo (26) weds first wife Hilaria del Rosario
Harold Wilson
1940 68th Prime Minister of UK Harold Wilson (23) weds poet Mary Baldwin (23) in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford
Michael Crichton
1965 Novelist Michael Crichton (22) weds high school sweetheart Joan Radam
Aung San Suu Kyi
1972 Politician Aung San Suu Kyi (26) weds author Michael Aris (25)
Wedding of Interest
1994 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)
- 2019 Austrian women Nicole Kopaunik (37) and Daniela Paier (37) become the 1st same-sex couple to be officially married in the predominantly Catholic country, in a ceremony in Velden, southern Austria, shortly after midnight