May 4 – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, son of the composer Samuel Wesley, grandson of Charles Wesley, and organist of Hereford Cathedral, elopes with and marries Mary Anne Merewether, sister of the cathedral's dean.
November 9 – At a concert in Johann Sebastian Bach's home city of Leipzig, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Wieck and Louis Rakeman perform Bach’s Concerto in D minor for three keyboards and orchestra.