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1842	Hong Kong ceded to Britain
1842	Treaty of Nanjing
1862	Central School established in Hong Kong
1894	Central School becomes Queens College and switches to English-medium
1912	English-medium University of Hong Kong established
1963	Chinese University of Hong Kong established
1970	'Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary'
1974	Official Language Ordinace in Hong Kong
1978	Allen at Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages
1978	Establishment of 1st MA in applied linguistics in China
1979	Longman set up Readability Pilot Study
1979	I A Richards visits China to talk about Basic English
1980	Establishment of 1st certifcate course in applied linguistics in China
1980	First national symposium on applied linguistics and English teaching in China
1986	Establishment of 1st PhD in applied linguistics in China
1997	Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule
2008	Hong Kong MRI colour study