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 Women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (24) weds fellow abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton (34)
James Gordon Bennett
Sep 6 Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York
Robert Schumann
Sep 12 German pianist and composer Robert Schumann (30) marries German pianist and composer Clara Wieck (20)