Why or when did Revolution become a fashionable way to describe seemingly minor events?

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The Industrial Revolution, The French revolution,

Russian or American are early examples of the seriousness of the word. Now, looking through my library I find titles such as

Voices of the food revolution : you can heal your body and your world--with food! / John Robbins and Ocean Robbins

Revolution 2.0 : the power of the people is greater than the people in power : a memoir / Wael Ghonim

The autism revolution : whole-body strategies for making life all it can be / Martha Herbert, with Karen Weintraub

The leaderless revolution : how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the twenty-first century / Carne Ross

The scientific revolution / by Don Nardo Nardo, Don, 1947-

Revolution in a bottle : how TerraCycle is redefining green business / Tom Szaky

The retail revolution : how Wal-Mart remade American business, transformed the global economy, and put politics in every store / Nelson Lichtenstein

Jamie's food revolution : rediscover how to cook simple, delicious, affordable meals / Jamie Oliver ; photography by David Loftus and Chris Terry

Pictures at a revolution : five movies

and the birth of the new Hollywood / Mark Harris

Promotheos

What you describe is as old a hyerbole