24. Political and historical designations which have been much used and have come to have special significances such as names of leagues, parties, classes, movements, and the like.
Holy Alliance, Dreibund, Roundheads, Independents, Reformation, Dissenter.
25. Names of well-known historic epochs, periods in the history of language, and geological ages and strata. The word “age” is not capitalized except when necessary to avoid ambiguity.
Stone age, Middle Ages, Age of Elizabeth, Crusades, Commune (of Paris), Middle English, Neolithic.
26. Names of important events.
Hundred Years War, Battle of Trenton,
Louisiana Purchase, Norman Conquest.
27. Names of specific treaties, important laws, and the like.
Peace of Amiens, Edict of Nantes, Concordat, Emancipation Proclamation, Fourteenth Amendment.
28. Names of governmental bodies and departments and their branches when specifically designated.
Congress, the Senate, the Board of Aldermen, the House of Commons, the Committee on Education.