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 Renaissance in Italy: writers Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio; painter Giotto. Development of Noh drama in Japan. Aztecs establish 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

Ming Dynasty begins in China.

1376–1382

John Wycliffe, pre-Reformation religious reformer, and followers translate Latin Bible into English.

1378

The Great Schism (to 1417)—rival popes in Rome and Avignon, France, fight for control of Roman Catholic Church.

c. 1387

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

1398

Tamerlane, the Mongol conqueror, begins last great conquest—Delhi.