The invention of tea.

I am yet to meet an Englishman who refuses tea because they simply don't exist.
Way back when humans were still in the process of creation, God created a new breed of human, similar to the others, called an Englishman. What historians carelessly fumble over is the fact that Englishmen, until the invention of tea, were utterly useless. 
Scientists tried and tried but they didnt know what to do. Medicines were created, experiments were carried out, and then they found that there was a receptor which simply did not function beyond mere instinctive processes. 
Then, after 1661 long years without the English, the marriage of Catherine of Bragança and Charles II and with this, tea was imported from Portugal after it was harvested in China. Like an athlete on steroids, all Englishmen were ignited, they could work and they were not simply presences they were beings. From then, the rate of evolution of all Englishmen increased rapidly, the industrial revolution happened it what seemed like minutes, trains, cars, planes were invented. 
Englishmen became powerful, they became masters of the mind as they had something which no one else had. This drink, steam rising from that clear bronze liquid, poured from the kettle, stirred once with the tea bag, twice with the milk. In a favoured tea cup, this dwells, ready to be injected, absorbed through the skin, or, more commonly, drank.
That is why, through a matter of consequences, the Chinese harvesting of this strange infusion of water and tea leaves, has accelerated the evolution of the Englishman.