2010 Event Yvo de Boer, top climate change official at the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, resigns 1993 Death Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author, Heir, dies at 85 1987 Death Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74 1970 Death Douwe Hermans Kiestra, Harm Harmstra, Fries boer/writer, dies at 70 1970 Birthday Frank de Boer, Dutch soccer star, Ajax 1970 Birthday Ronald de Boer, Dutch soccer player, Ajax 1960 Birthday Bart de Boer, Dutch guitarist, Ivy Green 1958 Death Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91 1947 Death Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged 1947 Event Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania 1939 Birthday Margaretha de Boer, Dutch minister, PvdA 1937 Birthday Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist and playwright, The Family 1928 Death Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies 1928 Death Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal, Sudan, Boer war, WW I, dies at 66 1924 Birthday Joep J P de Boer, Dutch MP, CDA 1923 Birthday J T Mellema, Boer politician, CHU 1922 Death Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 1922 Death Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67 1919 Death Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies 1914 Death Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, Uncle Chose, Boer general, dies at 66 1911 Death Petrus A Cronje, Transvaal Boer general, dies 1911 Death Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75 1910 Birthday Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter, WW II 1907 Birthday Jo Boer, Dutch author, Catharina and the Magnolias 1902 Event Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal 1902 Death ... Potgieter, South African Boer general, dies in battle 1902 Event Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British 1902 Death Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed 1901 Event Boer general Kritzinger captured 1901 Event Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry 1901 Event Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers 1901 Event Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony 1901 Event Boer general Kritzinger driven out of Cape colony 1901 Event Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal 1900 Event Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony 1900 Event Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha 1900 Event Boer Generals Prinsloo and Roux surrenders in Brandwater Basin 1900 Event Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns 1900 Event Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal 1900 Event Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed 1900 Event British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet 1900 Event Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South Africa 1899 Event Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs. General Methuen 1899 Birthday Harry Buller Siege Willis, son of South Africa boer in Ladysmith 1899 Event Battle of Mud river (Boer General. Cronje beats British General Methuen) 1899 Event Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) 1899 Event South Africa Boer Republic declares war on England 1893 Birthday Jacob HA van Coeverden, boer/edelman 1881 Event Boers and Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war 1867 Birthday Michael G de Boer, historian, Harbor of Amsterdam 1854 Birthday Christiaan R de Wet, South Africa, Boer General, Nicholsonsnek 1825 Birthday Paulus Kruger, President of South African Republic, 1883, Boer leader 1797 Death Carter Braxton, U.S. boer/signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 61 1693 Death Aert Jansz van Nes, Young boer Jaep, lt-admiral, dies at 67 1671 Birthday Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader 1671 Death Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed 1671 Event Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin 1626 Death Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle 1549 Event Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army 1549 Event English boer army occupies Norwich 1525 Death Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed 1525 Event German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war 1524 Event Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest 1520 Death Great Worm, Worm Gerlefs Donia, Fries boer/rebel leader, dies 1381 Death John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged 1381 Event English boer uprising begins in Essex 1358 Death Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies 1358 Event French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured 1358 Event Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
