how to initialize an array in javascript

var events = [
  {
    userId: 1,
    place: "Wormholes Allow Information to Escape Black Holes",
    name: "Check out this recent discovery about workholes",
    date: "2020-06-26T17:58:57.776Z",
    id: 1
  },
  {
    userId: 1,
    place: "Wormholes Allow Information to Escape Black Holes",
    name: "Check out this recent discovery about workholes",
    date: "2020-06-26T17:58:57.776Z",
    id: 2
  },
  {
    userId: 1,
    place: "Wormholes Allow Information to Escape Black Holes",
    name: "Check out this recent discovery about workholes",
    date: "2020-06-26T17:58:57.776Z",
    id: 3
  }
];
console.log(events[0].place);var array_name = [item1, item2, ...];