Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1840

Famous Weddings


HeartWedding of Interest

Feb 1 Novelist Alexandre Dumas (37) weds actress Ida Ferrier

Author Alexandre Dumas
Author
Alexandre Dumas

HeartWedding of Interest

Feb 10 British Queen Victoria (20) marries her cousin Albert (20) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later the Prince Consort at St James' Palace

Queen of the United Kingdom Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom
Victoria

HeartWedding of Interest

May 1 Women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (24) weds fellow abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton (34)

Women's Rights Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women's Rights Activist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

HeartWedding of Interest

Sep 6 Publisher James Gordon Bennett (45) weds Henrietta Agnes Crean in NYC, New York

Founder of the New York Herald James Gordon Bennett
Founder of the New York Herald
James Gordon Bennett
  • Sep 12 Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck