1300–1399(A.D.)World History 1312–1337 Mali Empire reaches its height in Africa under King Mansa Musa. c. 1325 The beginning of the Renaissancein Italy: writers Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio; painter Giotto. Development ofNohdrama in Japan. Aztecsestablish Tenochtitlán on site of modern Mexico City. Peak of Muslim culture in Spain. Small cannon in use. 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War—English and French kings fight for control of France. 1347–1351 At least 25 million people die in Europe's “Black Death” (bubonic plague). 1368 MingDynasty begins in China. 1376–1382 John Wycliffe, pre-Reformation religious reformer, and followers translate Latin Bible into English. 1378 The Great Schism (to1417)—rival popes in Rome and Avignon, France, fight for control of Roman Catholic Church. c. 1387 Chaucer'sCanterbury Tales. 1398 Tamerlane, the Mongol conqueror, begins last great conquest—Delhi.