"the outbreak of the revolution" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English, and is often found in contexts such as history, politics, or literature.
Example sentence: "The outbreak of the revolution changed the course of history in that region forever."
One afternoon Boris bought her the bracelet and announced that he was returning to Russia, despite the outbreak of the revolution.
Yuan then coerced parliament into electing him formally to the presidency, and he was inaugurated on October 10, the second anniversary of the outbreak of the revolution.
The outbreak of the revolution, in January 1905, found Lenin abroad in Switzerland, and he did not return to Russia until November.
He remained in the guards after the outbreak of the revolution in 1789, and in September 1792 he was made a captain.
Yuan had been retired from officialdom at odds with the regent Prince Chun, but, on the outbreak of the revolution in 1911, the court had no choice but to recall him from retirement to take command of his new army.
Stateless indeed was Victor Brombert's youth, but intensely European: his parents left Moscow at the outbreak of the revolution in 1917; after a brief period in Denmark and a year in London they moved to Germany and "finally" settled in Paris, when Victor was 14.
On the outbreak of the revolutions of 1848, Louis whose passion for the dancer Lola Montez had reduced his popularity even further abdicated in favour of his son Maximilian II.
The outbreak of the slave revolution in Haiti in the early 1790s sent shock waves of fear throughout the American South and led to new state laws barring the importation of slaves.
In the political ferment that followed the outbreak of the French revolution, James Losh was one of many who passionately advocated, among other causes, voting reform and education for all, including women.
In the piece I wrote for the Guardian, published on 27 January 2011, only two days after the outbreak of the Egyptian revolution, I said: "Now the wave is coming.
The book claimed that in 1793, at the outbreak of the French revolution, the Rohan family scattered; and Marie Victoire de Rohan went to relatives in Poland.
