* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

The Boer nation is mainly descended from Dutch, German and French Huguenots, who migrated to South Africa during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries.

The BCVO ( Movement for Christian-National Education ) is a federation of 47 Calvinist private schools, primarily in the Free State and the Transvaal, committed to educating Boer children from grade 0 through to 12.

* 1902 – Second Boer War: Harry ' Breaker ' Harbord Morant is executed in Pretoria.

* 1900 – The Second Boer War: The 118-day " Siege of Ladysmith " is lifted.

Further purification is effected by a chemical transport reaction developed by Arkel and de Boer: In a closed vessel, hafnium reacts with iodine at temperatures of 500 ° C, forming hafnium ( IV ) iodide ; at a tungsten filament of 1700 ° C the reverse reaction happens, and the iodine and hafnium are set free.

The Krugerrand is so named because the obverse, designed by Otto Schultz, bears the face of Boer statesman Paul Kruger, four-term president of the old South African Republic.

A treaty was signed at Aliwal in 1869 between the British and the Boer defining the boundaries of the protectorate, the arable land west of the Caledon River remained in Boer hands and is referred to as the Lost or Conquered Territory.

* M is Muziek, Monoloog en Moord ( 1993 ) ( text by Lodewijk de Boer ) Music theatre work

During the Second Boer War, a Boer force attempting to sneak up on the Royal Canadian Dragoons was defeated after their movements startled the nearby springbok, thus alerting the Canadian sentries, which is why the Dragoons have the springbok as their cap badge and as their mascot.

; 1899: The Second Boer War is fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics.

** Second Boer War: The British House of Commons ' vote of censure over the British government's handling of the war is defeated.

* February 15 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Kimberley is lifted.

The current official version is the 1932 arrangement by Walther Boer.

The conflict is commonly referred to as The Boer War but is also known as the South African War outside South Africa, the Anglo-Boer War among most South Africans, and in Afrikaans as the Anglo-Boereoorlog or Tweede Vryheidsoorlog (" Second War of Liberation " or lit.

One strong argument is that Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, did not believe the Boers were preparing for war, and also believed that if Britain were to send large numbers of troops, it would strike too aggressive a posture and so prevent a negotiated settlement being reached or even encourage a Boer attack.

It is best known internationally for the Siege of Mafeking, the most famous engagement of the Second Boer War.

Dennis Nicolaas Bergkamp (; born 10 May 1969 ) was a Dutch professional footballer and now is the assistant manager to Frank de Boer at Ajax.

De Boer ( 2004 ), however, suggests that the Gospel of Mary should not be read as a Gnostic specific text, but that it is to be " interpreted in the light of a broader Christian context ".

Given the British origins of the majority of uitlanders and the ongoing influx of new uitlanders into Johannesburg, the Boers recognised that granting full voting rights to the uitlanders would eventually result in the loss of ethnic Boer control in the South African Republic.

The stated reasons were that he believed that political divisions between the white-controlled states " weakened them against the natives ", threatened an ethnic divide between British and Boer, and left the Cape vulnerable to interference from other European powers.

Afriforum argued that " Boer " referred either to Afrikaners or farmers and that Malema was a public and influential leader, openly singing lyrics that incited violence towards an ethnic group, which constituted hate speech.

In 1968 Leo Boer and wener van de Wetering founded a Zen group, and through two books made Zen popular in the Netherlands.

The last group to arrive in Namibia before the Europeans were the Basters – descendants of Boer men and African women ( mostly Nama ).

The Boeremag () is a South African right-wing activism group with white separatist aims and is accused of planning to overthrow the ruling African National Congress government and to reinstate a new Boer administered republic reminiscent of the era when Boers administered independent republics during the 19th century following the Great Trek.

Kitchener had received intelligence on their location and he hoped to damage the morale of Boer commandos at large by sending a small group of men to capture the Boer Government.

This mainly Irish regiment was marching westward toward Pretoria, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Anstruther, when halted by a Boer commando group.

Beginning in 2008, the far-right political group Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement ) started lobbying for the area to be re-established as an independent Boer republic.

In 1884 a group of Boer farmers from the districts of Utrecht and Vryheid undertook to restore order, in return for land for the formation of an independent republic.

On October 8, 1887, Joaquim Boer led a large group of Italian immigrants to Brazil.

The limited rights granted this group in the Boer republics was one of the contributing factors behind the Second Boer War.

Towns like Angol had a punchline for having a " large number " of " Anglos ", while Temuco has a thriving Chinese, Taiwanese ( another group of " Chinese ") and Syrian presence ; and Villarrica was where several thousand Afrikaners or Dutch South Africans settled after their evacuation from South Africa following the Boer War ( 1899 – 1903 ).

A combined British-Canadian force of 6, 000 finally trapped a group of approximately 5, 000 Boer soldiers and some civilians, under Piet Cronje, in a bend of the Modder River near Kimberley, having advanced from south of the Modder River on the 11th.

The Legion of Frontiersmen is a paramilitary group formed in Britain in 1905 in the days when the British Empire was at its height by Roger Pocock, a former constable with the North-West Mounted Police and Boer War veteran, with its roots firmly set in another era, to bolster the defensive capacity of the British Empire.

Quigley assigns this group primary or exclusive credit for several historical events: the Jameson Raid, the Second Boer War, the founding of the Union of South Africa, the replacement of the British Empire with the Commonwealth of Nations, and a number of Britain ’ s foreign policy decisions in the twentieth century.

The court-martial of six officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers ( BVC ), an irregular British force in the Boer War, was based on charges asserting that, between July and September 1901, a Lieutenant Harry Morant had incited the co-accused, Lts Handcock, Witton and others under his command to murder some twenty people, including the Boer commando Visser, a group of eight Boer POWs, Boer civilian adults and children, and the German missionary Heese.

Milner's Kindergarten is an informal reference to a group of Britons who served in the South African Civil Service under High Commissioner Alfred, Lord Milner, between the Second Boer War and the founding of the Union of South Africa.

Australian soldiers have fought as a national group in conflicts since the Second Boer War in South Africa.

Nicolaas Pieter Johannes (" Niklaas " or " Siener ") Janse van Rensburg ( August 30, 1864 – March 11, 1926 ) was a Boer from the South African Republic-also known as the Transvaal Republic-and later a citizen of South Africa who was considered by some to be a prophet of the Boere ( who are the smaller section of the language based macro group which became known as Afrikaners ).

During the Siege of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War, a Bovril-like paste was unofficially produced from horse meat within the garrison.

In contemporary South Africa and due to Broederbond propaganda, Boer and Afrikaner have been used interchangeably despite the fact that the Boers are the smaller segment within the Afrikaner designation as the Afrikaners of Cape Dutch origin are larger.

Each Boer commando unit was sent to the district from which its members had been recruited, which meant that they could rely on local support and personal knowledge of the terrain and the towns within the district thereby enabling them to live off the land.

Haggard knew Africa well, having travelled deep within the continent as a 19-year-old during the Anglo-Zulu War and the First Boer War, where he had been impressed by South Africa's vast mineral wealth and by the ruins of ancient lost cities being uncovered, such as Great Zimbabwe.

During his visit, Chamberlain became convinced that the Boer territories required a period of government by the British crown before being granted self-governance within the empire.

Campbell-Bannerman's government granted the Boer states, the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, self-government within the British Empire through an Order in Council so as to bypass the House of Lords.

They formed the states of Griqualand West and Griqualand East which, like the two Boer republics, were eventually subsumed within the British Empire.

At the first battle at Bronkhorstspruit, Lieutenant-Colonel Anstruther and 120 men of the 94th Foot ( Connaught Rangers ) were dead or wounded by Boer fire within minutes of the first shots.

In this hotel a commemorative plaque, situated within what was her lounge, was unveiled by the South African High Commissioner Mr Kent Durr as a tribute to her humanitarianism and heroism during the Anglo Boer War.

One of the historic Boer forts constructed towards the end of the nineteenth century in Pretoria, is located on top of the Magaliesberg within the boundaries of the reserve.

The Boer soldiers withheld fire until the British soldiers were within.

In the hills of the small game park within Treverton there lie some trenches used in the Boer wars.