3rd Earl of Bute, who had recently resigned his post as Prime Minister of Great Britain. In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county, when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion. The French government withdraws the wartime taxes. Catherine the Great establishes the first secondary education school for females in Russia – The Smolny Institute, for girls of the nobility in St. Petersburg. Chief Pontiac, participating in an armed conflict with other native tribes against British military, participates in a dialogue and exchange with the military of Britain, resulting eventually in a negotiated peace treaty.Manuscripts division University of Michigan Accessed February 17, 2018 Publications Cesare Beccaria - On Crimes and Punishments (Dei delitti e delle pene), a founding work of penology Immanuel Kant - Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und Erhabenen) Voltaire - Dictionnaire philosophique Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto "a story, translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto", the first Gothic novel Births January 6 – John Gray, last verified American Revolutionary War veteran (d. 1868) January 17 – Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, crown princess of Saxony, died of smallpox (d. 1782) February 11 – Joseph Chénier, French poet (d. 1811) March 13 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, 26th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845) April 3 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (d. 1831) April 13 – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830) April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, German-born English entrepreneur (d. 1834) May 3 – Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (executed 1794) May 5 – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general (k. 1812) May 7 – Therese Huber, German writer and scholar (d. 1829) May 26 – Edward Livingston, American jurist, statesman (d. 1836) June 5 – James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution (d. 1829) June 19 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero of independence (d. 1850) June 21 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840) July 9 – Ann Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist (d. 1823) August 13 – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1813) August 18 – Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev, Galician Jewish modern Hebrew philologist, lexicographer, Biblical scholar and poet (d. 1811) September 5 – Henriette Herz, German salonnière (d. 1847) September 7 – Pierre