On This Day

Famous Weddings & Divorces in August 1846

Famous Weddings

Gioachino Rossini

Aug 16 Opera Composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioachino Rossini marries 2nd wife Olympe Pélissier in Paris

Ellen G. White

Aug 30 Author and Christian pioneer Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine