Editing 1753 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Virginia]] Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Major [[George Washington]] to dissuade the [[Kingdom of France|French]] from occupying the [[Ohio Country]].
* [[November 12]] &ndash; [[Spain]]'s [[Ferdinand VI of Spain|King Fernando VI]] issues a set of 25 regulations and restrictions for theatrical performances, including a requirement that the directors of the acting troupes "take the greatest care that the necessary modesty is preserved" and that the actors should be reminded that chastity requires that "indecent and provocative" dances should be avoided.<ref>Maurice Esses, ''Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain During the 17th and Early 18th Centuries: History and background, music and dance'' (Pendragon Press, 1992) pp535-536</ref>
* [[November 12]] &ndash; A fire destroys the Emperor's Palace in [[Moscow]].<ref>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p52</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[José Alfonso Pizarro]] completes more than four years as the Spanish [[List of Viceroys of New Granada|Viceroy of New Granada]] (which comprises modern-day Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador) and is succeeded by [[José Solís Folch de Cardona]].<ref>David Marley, ''Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present'' (ABC-CLIO, 2008) p389</ref>
* [[November 25]] &ndash; The [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] announces a competition among chemists and physicists to provide "the best explanation of the true causes of electricity including their theory", with a deadline of June 1, 1755 (on the Julian calendar used in Russia, June 12 on the Gregorian calendar used in Western Europe and the New World).<ref>"Hallerstein and Gruber's Scientific Heritage", by Stanislav Joze Juznic, in ''The Circulation of Science and Technology'': Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, 2012) p358</ref>
* [[December 11]] &ndash; Major George Washington and British guide [[Christopher Gist]] arrive at [[Fort Le Boeuf]] (near modern-day [[Waterford, Pennsylvania]] and the city of [[Erie, Pennsylvania|Erie]]), a French fortress built in territory claimed by the British Crown Colony of Virginia.  Washington presents the fort's commander, French Army Captain [[Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre]], a message from Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie advising that "The lands upon the Ohio River are so notoriously known to be the property of the Crown of Great Britain that it is a matter of equal concern and surprise... to hear that a body of French fortresses and making settlements upon that river, within His Majesty's dominions," adding that "It becomes my duty to require your peaceable departure."  Captain Legardeur provides a reply for Washington to take to Dinwiddie, declaring that the rights of France's [[Louis XV of France|King Louis XV]] to the land "are incontestable", and refuses to back down, leading to beginning of the [[French and Indian War]] in 1754.<ref>John Hrastar, ''Breaking the Appalachian Barrier: Maryland as the Gateway to Ohio and the West, 1750–1850'' (McFarland, 2018) p96</ref>