Editing 1754 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 24]] &ndash; [[China]]'s [[Qianlong Emperor]] reverses a longstanding policy that barred Chinese subjects from ever returning to China if they remained out of the country for more than three years.<ref>Philip A. Kuhn, ''Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) p94</ref>
* [[October 31]] &ndash; What will become [[Columbia University]] is chartered as "a College in the Province of New York... in the City of New York in America... named King's College", with the charter submitted by New York's colonial governor, [[James De Lancey]].<ref name="columbia_history" />
* [[November 28]] &ndash; Denmark establishes the ''Renteskirverkontor'', an office within the Chamber of Finance, to oversee the colonial affairs of the [[Danish West Indies]] (''Dansk Vestindien'').<ref>Isaac Dookhan, ''A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States'' (Caribbean Universities Press, 1974, reprinted by Canoe Press, 1994) p200</ref>  Peder Mariager, who had been a minor official of the Danish West Indies Company, becomes the first administrator.  The colony, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix later is purchased by the United States from Denmark and is now the [[U.S. Virgin Islands]].  
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[Karim Khan Zand]], the [[List of monarchs of Persia|King of Persia]] (now [[Iran]]) recaptures the city of [[Shiraz]] from [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] warlord [[Azad Khan Afghan]], who had taken control of much of central Iran since 1749.<ref>Kaveh Farrokh, ''Iran at War: 1500-1988'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011)</ref> 
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Osman III]] succeeds his brother [[Mahmud I]] as [[Ottoman Emperor]]; he will rule until his death in [[1757]].  
* [[December 26]] &ndash; Massachusetts becomes the third colony (after Pennsylvania and Connecticut) to reject the [[Albany Plan]] for an inter-colonial union, voting 48 to 31 to postpone consideration of the union question indefinitely.<ref name=Rogers/>