Diário Oficial da União


The Diário Oficial da União, abbreviated DOU, is the official journal of the federal government of Brazil. It is published since 1 October 1862 and was created via the imperial decree 1.177, of September 9 of the same year. It is published by the Brazilian National Press.
Though the journal has been published since 1862, it had many predecessors, as follows:
  1. Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro
  2. Gazeta do Rio
  3. Diário do Governo
  4. Diário Fluminense
  5. Correio Oficial e
  6. Without proper journal
  7. Gazeta Oficial do Império do Brasil
  8. Diário do Rio de Janeiro - it published government material from 2/1/1841 - 30/8/1846 and from 1848 - 1862
  9. Diário Oficial
  10. Diário Oficial da República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil
  11. Diário Oficial - 1/1/1892 - current one