1840

Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1840

Famous Weddings

Wedding of Interest

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

Author Alexandre Dumas — Author
Alexandre Dumas

Wedding 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 Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom
Queen Victoria

Wedding 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

Wedding 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

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