- Jan. 4th: Division chartered with a total of 23 members.
Pictures: (members) (framed charter)
- Feb. 2nd: First official meeting as a division
- Mar. 2nd: Members present at monthly meeting unanimously vote to name division for local Irish immigrant and Civil War soldier, Bernard "Barney" Devine.
- Apr. 27th: Brothers Phil McDonald & Gary Ryan become 4th Degree Hibernians at Major Degree ceremony in Bowie, Maryland.
- Jun. 1st: Division members vote at monthly meeting to adopt the 9th Massachusetts Infantry monument (North slope of Big Roundtop) at Gettysburg.
- July 19th: Division participates in Adams County Irish Festival as a vendor. Phil McDonald presents Derek Warfield with gift from the division.
- August 17th: Pat Bowling represents the division during WITF-TV on-air fundraising drive.
- September 20th: Hibernian Hunger Project spaghetti dinner raises approximately $250 in funds and food for the Gettysburg Community Soup Kitchen.
- October 4th: Inaugural Irish-American Battlefield & Soldier's National Cemetery Tour sells out allowing the division to raise $250 for restoration/perpetual care of the 9th Massachusetts Infantry monument on Gettysburg battlefield.
- October 9th: National President, Ned McGinley and National Chaplain, Fr. Patrick Sullivan visit Gettysburg and meet with division members. Short tour of Irish monuments on the battlefield the following day.
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