Famous Weddings & Divorces in 1840

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

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

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

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

Sep 12 German pianist and composer Robert Schumann (30) marries German pianist and composer Clara Wieck (20)