In
England, with the 1700 founding of
The Oxford Gazette (which became the
London Gazette), the word
gazette came to indicate a public journal of the government; today, such a journal is sometimes called a
government gazette. For some governments, publishing information in a gazette was or is a legal necessity by which official documents
come into force and enter the
public domain. Such is the case for documents published in
Royal Thai Government Gazette (est. 1858), and in
The Gazette of India (est. 1950). The
government of the United Kingdom requires government gazettes of its member countries. Publication of the
Edinburgh Gazette, the official government newspaper in Scotland, began in 1699.
The Dublin Gazette of
Ireland followed in 1705, but ceased on 27 January 1922 as part of the transfer of power to the
Provisional Government, ahead of the establishmnet of the
Irish Free State; the (
Official Gazette) replaced it. The
Belfast Gazette of
Northern Ireland published its first issue in 1921. ==
Gazette as a verb== Chiefly in British English, the
transitive verb to gazette means "to announce or publish in a gazette"; especially where
gazette refers to a public journal or a newspaper of record. For example, "
Lake Nakuru was gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960 and upgraded to
National Park status in 1968."
British Army personnel decorations, promotions, and officer commissions are gazetted in the
London Gazette, the "Official Newspaper of Record for the United Kingdom".
Gazettal (a noun) is the act of gazetting; for example, "the gazettal of the bird sanctuary". ==See also==